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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act 5. The Maturation of a Research Program: Life after Aysheaia, 1979 - Doomsday (There Are No Final Answers).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Whittington's 1979 monograph written about?
(a) Cataloging Marella splendens.
(b) Dissecting Sanctocrabis.
(c) Monitoring Wiwaxia.
(d) Cataloging Opabinia.

2. Why did Whittington dissect Opabinia?
(a) To find its liver.
(b) To uncover its organs.
(c) To uncover its bodily appendages.
(d) To look at its heart.

3. Which old category did the team focus on to classify Opabinia?
(a) "Mechanisms."
(b) "Trilobites."
(c) "Beetles."
(d) "Worms."

4. What does Opabinia need?
(a) A new chordata.
(b) A new phylum.
(c) A new species.
(d) A new kingdom.

5. What kind of category was it?
(a) The classifying category.
(b) The satisfactory category.
(c) The memorable category.
(d) The catch-all category.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what fashion was the Burgess Shale actually discovered?

2. What is so strange about Opabinia that paleontologists found it unbelievable?

3. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?

4. How many levels are there in the taxonomy of life?

5. What did Whittington next begin work on?

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