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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. When did many species of hominid exist?
(a) A million years ago.
(b) Five billion years ago.
(c) Two thousand years ago.
(d) Hundreds of thousands of years ago.

2. What did Gould note about the Burgess work at this time, in Act 5?
(a) Whittington, Briggs and Simon have begun to work on other topics.
(b) Whittington has left the work to Simon and Briggs.
(c) Briggs has left the Burgess team.
(d) Whittington and Simon have begun to work on other topics.

3. What was Whittington the world expert on at the time?
(a) Fossils.
(b) Paleontologists.
(c) Trilobites.
(d) Yohoias.

4. What did Anomalocaris appear to represent?
(a) Another new species.
(b) Another new phylum.
(c) Another new taxonomy.
(d) Another new kingdom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many major contingencies along the path toward human development does Gould guide the reader through?

2. What does the second stage of contingency describe?

3. What does Gould say represents the Burgess message?

4. What was once often a focus of the fauna?

5. What example helped round out the Burgess revision?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Leanchoilica look like?

2. Why did classifying Naraoia pose a problem for Whittington?

3. What must the next generation do with the Burgess Shale?

4. Why is David Burton's published monograph on Sidneyia an important milestone?

5. What did Sanctacaris look like?

6. What does Gould note about the Burgess work and the Whittington, Briggs and Simon team?

7. How does Gould describe the relationship between Oxford advisors and their students?

8. Why wasn't the discovery of the Burgess Shale and its consequent new shift in perspective a gradual change?

9. What new view did Whittington hold after working on Naraoia?

10. How does the book describe Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris as students of Oxford?

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