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

2. What kind of development were the Burgess animals first interpreted to have?
(a) Regressing development.
(b) Gradual, progressive development.
(c) Quick, rash development.
(d) Unchanging development.

3. What kinds of versions does the story of the Burgess Shale's discovery have?
(a) Two of more or less the same version.
(b) A old, more accurate version and a newer, less accurate version.
(c) A newer, less accurate version and an older, more accurate version.
(d) An old, less accurate version and a newer, more accurate version.

4. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?
(a) The Precambrian Era.
(b) The Cambrian Era.
(c) The Prestige Era.
(d) The Mesozoic Era.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What compose eras?

3. What does the Burgess Shale represent that occurred 570 million years ago?

4. According to Gould, what kind of insight does the Burgess Shale offer into the nature of life and the evolution of life forms?

5. Where is the Burgess Shale?

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