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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 determine about the difference between eukaryotic fauna and the Burgess fauna?
(a) The difference is microscopic.
(b) The difference is minimalist.
(c) The difference is close.
(d) The difference is vast.

2. Where is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The Appalachian Mountains.
(b) England.
(c) The Canadian Rockies.
(d) Mt. Everest.

3. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?
(a) Charles Walmont.
(b) Charlie VanGuarden.
(c) Charles Doolittle Walcott.
(d) Dr. Doolittle.

4. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?
(a) Explaining which animals are in the Burgess Shale.
(b) Explaining the last chapter's conclusion.
(c) Explaining how scientists divide up historical epochs.
(d) Explaining what the Burgess Shale represents.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras?

2. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?

3. Who proposes to use the Burgess Shale to illustrate the nature of history?

4. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?

5. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?

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