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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stage of contingency does the book focus on most?
(a) The first stage.
(b) The sixth stage.
(c) The fourth stage.
(d) The fifth stage.

2. Where did Collins find another dig site?
(a) Five miles north of the original quarry.
(b) On the other side of the mountains.
(c) In Alaska.
(d) Five miles south of the original quarry.

3. What kind of similarities and differences must scientists attend to?
(a) Deep.
(b) Fair to middling.
(c) None.
(d) Shallow.

4. How many major contingencies along the path toward human development does Gould guide the reader through?
(a) Seven.
(b) Eight.
(c) Nine.
(d) Four.

5. What did Whittington next begin work on?
(a) Marella.
(b) Naraoia.
(c) Wiwaxia.
(d) Yohoia.

6. What did the dissenter believe should happen to Aysehaia?
(a) It should jump two classes.
(b) It should not exist.
(c) It should be retained in a known class.
(d) It should spread to the lower classes.

7. What is the second subtitle for the Act 5 chapter?
(a) Doomsday (There Are No Final Answers).
(b) Doomsday (There Are No Final Statements).
(c) Wednesday (There Are No Final Answers).
(d) Doomsday (There Are Final Answers).

8. What was once often a focus of the fauna?
(a) Marella.
(b) Amarella.
(c) Sidneyia.
(d) Yohoia.

9. What adjectives describe Morris?
(a) Radical, immature.
(b) Antisocial, benevolent, gracious.
(c) Young, radical, antisocial.
(d) Gracious, young, compassionate.

10. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?
(a) One.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

11. What years did Whittington work on Naraoia and Aysheaia?
(a) 1978-1979.
(b) 1980-1981.
(c) 1976-1977.
(d) 1977-1978.

12. What large crab with an enormous number of spines did Collins publish a monograph on in 1985?
(a) Sanctacaris.
(b) Eskesis.
(c) Malactaris.
(d) Phylocaticis.

13. What do Oxford advisers not spend much of their time on, according to Gould?
(a) Parents' work.
(b) Paleontologists' work.
(c) Students' work.
(d) Philosophers' work.

14. What new view did Whittington now understand?
(a) Many Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.
(b) No Burgess fossils fit within any known taxonomy.
(c) Few Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.
(d) Many Burgess fossils fit within one known taxonomy.

15. What type of relationship does Gould say Oxford advisers have with their students?
(a) A premature relationship.
(b) A mature relationship.
(c) A strong relationship.
(d) Little to no relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective describes how Whittington first felt when working on Naraoia?

2. What did Whittington's revisions of the new paradigm become?

3. How does Gould say diversity could possibly have expanded?

4. What do we not know about mass extinction?

5. What is the seventh stage of development about?

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