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

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

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

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

5. According to Gould, what kind of insight does the Burgess Shale offer into the nature of life and the evolution of life forms?
(a) Normal insight.
(b) Unique insight.
(c) Distasteful insight.
(d) Weird insight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?

2. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?

3. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?

4. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?

5. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?

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