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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remainder of Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What complex creature did Morris decide to focus on?
(a) Phylomari.
(b) Normaia.
(c) Wiwaxia.
(d) Trixolo.

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

4. What kind of picture do scientists have of multi-cellular animal life because of the Burgess Shale?
(a) Distinct.
(b) Imagined.
(c) General.
(d) None.

5. What was Leif Størmer's treatise on the Burgess Shale named?
(a) Treatise on the Burgess Shale.
(b) Treatise on Plant and Fauna life of the Burgess Shale.
(c) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.
(d) Treatise on Vertebrate Paleontology.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the evidences for Opabinia that are considered undeniable?

3. Why did Whittington dissect Opabinia?

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

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

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