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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, A Background for the Burgess Shale.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gould's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?
(a) It has a single order.
(b) It has two orders.
(c) It has no single order.
(d) It has five orders.

2. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?
(a) 89%.
(b) 47%
(c) 96%.
(d) 5%.

3. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?
(a) After his son stumbled upon it.
(b) After his wife's horse tripped and fell onto it.
(c) After his pistol whipped the dust.
(d) Before his son fell onto the Shale.

4. What is the Burgess Shale?
(a) A territory of British Columbia.
(b) The largest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(c) The smallest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(d) The Canadian Rockies.

5. When was the famed "death of the dinosaurs?"
(a) 10 million years ago.
(b) 65 million years ago.
(c) 20 million years ago.
(d) 100 thousand million years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?

2. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?

3. What kind of development were the Burgess animals first interpreted to have?

4. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?

5. What make up periods?

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