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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Possible Worlds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What make up periods?
(a) Epochs.
(b) Eras.
(c) Advents and Periods.
(d) Decades.

2. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?
(a) A controversial conservative paradigm.
(b) A provoking platonic paradigm.
(c) A leftover historical paradigm.
(d) A new research paradigm.

3. What does the Precambrian Era contain?
(a) Spatial, non-biological time and the decimation of single-celled life.
(b) Rational, linear logic and the advent of single-celled life.
(c) Geological, non-biological time and the advent of single-celled life.
(d) Physical, non-linear time and the advent of multi-cellular life.

4. What did Morris push Whittington to do?
(a) To be more radical.
(b) To do more and wonder less.
(c) To wonder more and do less.
(d) To be less radical.

5. What are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?
(a) Apathetic.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Brilliant.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did many species of hominid exist?

2. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?

3. Who dissented with Whittington about Aysehaia?

4. What is Canadaspis?

5. What kind of development were the Burgess animals first interpreted to have?

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