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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 kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?
(a) A provoking platonic paradigm.
(b) A controversial conservative paradigm.
(c) A leftover historical paradigm.
(d) A new research paradigm.

2. What does Gould say represents the Burgess message?
(a) Yohoia.
(b) Naraoia.
(c) Opabinia.
(d) Scthyoria.

3. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?
(a) Professor Harry Whittington of Cambridge and his colleagues.
(b) Professor Matt Stephens and his wife.
(c) Dr. John Whit and his colleagues.
(d) Dr. Whittington of Yale and her husband.

4. What did Whittington shockingly find after the dissection of Opabinia?
(a) Two hearts.
(b) Another complete, yet smaller Opabinia.
(c) A baby Opabinia.
(d) Nothing underneath the carapace at all.

5. What kinds of versions does the story of the Burgess Shale's discovery have?
(a) Two of more or less the same version.
(b) An old, less accurate version and a newer, more accurate version.
(c) A old, more accurate version and a newer, less accurate version.
(d) A newer, less accurate version and an older, more accurate version.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Burgess Shale?

2. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?

3. Which team member has Gould largely ignored at this point?

4. What five new species did Morris find?

5. What complex creature did Morris decide to focus on?

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