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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Possible Worlds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which team member has Gould largely ignored at this point?
(a) Derek Briggs.
(b) Simon Morris.
(c) General Briggs.
(d) Simon Conway.

2. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?
(a) Four and a half years.
(b) Six months.
(c) One year.
(d) Five and a half years.

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

4. What does the second stage of contingency describe?
(a) The progression of prokaryotes.
(b) The developmental path of eukaryotic organisms.
(c) How mammals survived.
(d) The origins of life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?

2. Who dissented with Whittington about Aysehaia?

3. How did Gould come to understand the Burgess Shale?

4. When did prokaryotic cells exist?

5. What new view did Whittington now understand?

(see the answer key)

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