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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act I. Marrella and Yohoia: The Dawning and Consolidation of Suspicion, 1971-1974.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?
(a) "The ladder and the cone."
(b) "The step and the bowl."
(c) "The cone and the rod."
(d) "The chair and the ladder."

2. What was Leif Størmer's treatise on the Burgess Shale named?
(a) Treatise on the Burgess Shale.
(b) Treatise on Vertebrate Paleontology.
(c) Treatise on Plant and Fauna life of the Burgess Shale.
(d) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.

3. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The dissipation of marine life was progress.
(b) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress
(c) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(d) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.

4. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?
(a) Write a monograph on observation alone.
(b) Classify the specimen in taxonomy.
(c) Naturalize the environment and take samples.
(d) Categorize each file according to specimen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Leif Størmer describe the Burgess Shale arthropods in a treatise?

2. When was the famed "death of the dinosaurs?"

3. What does the evolution of life contain, according to Gould's explanations and illustrations?

4. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?

5. What association does Gould make with progress and evolution?

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