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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Reconstruction of the Burgess Shale: Toward a New View of Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which creatures are representative of these four classes that survived the first great extinction?
(a) Eurypterid, mollusk, sea cucumbers.
(b) Dragonfly, crabs, and trilobites.
(c) Snails, crabs and dragonflies.
(d) Dragonfly, a fossil eurypterid, a crab and a trilobite

3. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?
(a) Completely revamped scientific studies.
(b) Betrayed his own principles.
(c) Greatly served the aims and goals of science.
(d) Betrayed science's aims.

4. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

5. What do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?
(a) Orders to genera.
(b) Phyla to classes.
(c) Kingdom to species.
(d) Phyla to species.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?

3. Where is the Burgess Shale?

4. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?

5. What kinds of versions does the story of the Burgess Shale's discovery have?

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