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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 adjectives describe Morris?
(a) Radical, immature.
(b) Gracious, young, compassionate.
(c) Antisocial, benevolent, gracious.
(d) Young, radical, antisocial.

2. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?
(a) Bezoar fossils.
(b) Trilobite fossils.
(c) Trixony fossils.
(d) Pitolimite fossils.

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

4. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?
(a) Cyrogenically preserve them.
(b) Dissect them for a museum show.
(c) Reproduce them.
(d) Classify them into an already existing taxonomy.

5. How was Walcott's taxonomy significantly updated?
(a) Including new genera and phyla.
(b) Including new phyla and manera.
(c) Including new marrella and phyla.
(d) Including new manera and genera.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Whittington restrain Morris from doing?

2. What does Gould determine about the difference between eukaryotic fauna and the Burgess fauna?

3. What did Bruton and Whittington do in 1983 in a monograph?

4. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?

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

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