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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. What did Whittington conclude about Yohoia in 1975?
(a) Yohoia is in multiple systems.
(b) Yohoia is a known arthropod.
(c) Yohoia is an unknown trilobite.
(d) Yohoia does not fit anywhere.

2. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?
(a) Fluffy.
(b) Unique.
(c) Severed.
(d) Normal.

3. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?
(a) Which two classes to classify it in.
(b) Which class it did not belong to.
(c) Which existing phyla to classify it in.
(d) Which class to make up.

4. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?
(a) Simon Conway Morris and Derek Briggs.
(b) Jeremy Morris and Derek Briggs.
(c) Briggs Morris and Simon Conway.
(d) Barry Moser and Simeon Martin.

5. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?
(a) Explaining which animals are in the Burgess Shale.
(b) Explaining what the Burgess Shale represents.
(c) Explaining the last chapter's conclusion.
(d) Explaining how scientists divide up historical epochs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?

2. What pushed Whittington beyond the idea he struggled under?

3. What did Whittington do after assigning his students to work on some of the other genera?

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

5. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?

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