View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act I. Marrella and Yohoia: The Dawning and Consolidation of Suspicion, 1971-1974.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?
(a) Invertebrates.
(b) Viruses.
(c) Amoebas.
(d) Vertebrates.

2. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Historical Limitation.
(c) Theopathsis.
(d) Progressive Development.

3. What association does Gould make with progress and evolution?
(a) Evolution always involves progress.
(b) Evolution is progress.
(c) Evolution is scattered progress.
(d) Evolution doesn't always involve progress.

4. When did Whittington publish a monograph on Yohoia?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1987.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?

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

3. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?

4. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?

5. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 198 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample