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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Walcott's Vision and the Nature of History.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the seventh stage of development about?
(a) Dinosaurs.
(b) Crustaceans.
(c) Sharks.
(d) Homo sapiens.

3. What compose eras?
(a) Advents and Periods.
(b) Epochs and Ages.
(c) Periods.
(d) Times and Seasons.

4. Which old category did the team focus on to classify Opabinia?
(a) "Mechanisms."
(b) "Trilobites."
(c) "Worms."
(d) "Beetles."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Oxford advisers not spend much of their time on, according to Gould?

2. What is the third stage of the fauna?

3. What is Canadaspis?

4. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?

5. What must evolutionary biologists specify concerning similarities and differences?

(see the answer key)

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