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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?
(a) 96%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 47%
(d) 89%.
2. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?
(a) Betrayed his own principles.
(b) Greatly served the aims and goals of science.
(c) Betrayed science's aims.
(d) Completely revamped scientific studies.
3. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?
(a) The idea of "plague."
(b) The idea of "symbiosis."
(c) The idea of "necrogenesis."
(d) The idea of "contingency."
4. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?
(a) "The cone and the rod."
(b) "The chair and the ladder."
(c) "The ladder and the cone."
(d) "The step and the bowl."
5. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?
(a) Six months.
(b) Five and a half years.
(c) Four and a half years.
(d) One year.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Walcott think Opabinia was just another one of?
2. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?
3. What does the Burgess Shale represent that occurred 570 million years ago?
4. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?
5. What does Gould determine about the difference between eukaryotic fauna and the Burgess fauna?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the difference between Simon Conway Morris and Whittington in the way that they worked?
2. Why is the Burgess Shale acknowledged as the most significant collection of fossils yet discovered?
3. Why do paleontologists find Opabinia unbelievable and fascinating?
4. What is the first chapter of "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History" about?
5. What did Whittington find Opabinia to actually be?
6. How is the "Cambrian explosion" defined?
7. Name four levels of the taxonomy of life.
8. Why did Gould write this book as an homage to the Burgess Shale?
9. Why could the acceptance of the new interpretation create within humans a psychological shock?
10. What did Leif Størmer's "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology" describe?
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