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

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

3. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Physical.
(d) Spiritual.

4. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?
(a) A provoking platonic paradigm.
(b) A controversial conservative paradigm.
(c) A leftover historical paradigm.
(d) A new research paradigm.

5. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?
(a) Widely.
(b) Narrowly.
(c) Minutely.
(d) Hardly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?

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

4. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?

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

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