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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do we not know about mass extinction?
(a) Why mass extinction worked as it did.
(b) Why mass extinction is so predictable.
(c) Why mass extinction no longer exists.
(d) Why mass extinction will never happen again.

2. What do bats superficially resemble?
(a) Mammals.
(b) Predators.
(c) Birds.
(d) Albatross.

3. What did Naraoia lead Whittington to do?
(a) Dismiss Naraoia as a fluke.
(b) Begin a new class called Trilobitoidea.
(c) Dismiss the entire class Trilobitoidea as artificial.
(d) Combine two classes to create Trilobitoidea.

4. Why did Whittington's next classification pose a problem?
(a) His tools malfunction.
(b) Yohoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.
(c) Whittington loses his classification charts.
(d) Naraoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.

5. What happened from 1971 through 1978 that changed everything?
(a) Sporadic leaps in clarity.
(b) Two months of pondering.
(c) Years of scientific debate.
(d) Gradually.

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

7. What did Whittington first think about Naraoia?
(a) It is the cousin of Yohoia.
(b) It is the first trilobite.
(c) It is a unique form of trilobite.
(d) It is the grandfather of Marella.

8. What five new species did Morris find?
(a) Nectocaris, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, Amiskwia, and Hallucigenia.
(b) Hallucigenia, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, Maskinal, and Frutogenia.
(c) Fologenia, Maskinal, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, and Hallucigenia.
(d) Hallucigenia, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, Amiskwia, and Malaria.

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

10. What did Gould say the next generation must do with the Burgess Shale?
(a) Fix it with revised techniques and forms of analysis.
(b) Work on it with new techniques and forms of paradigms.
(c) Work on it with new techniques and forms of analysis.
(d) Work on it with old techniques and forms of analysis.

11. What does Leanchoilia have that makes it look bizarre?
(a) Two toothy fins.
(b) A very large mouth.
(c) A trivalve.
(d) Two appendages that split into three whip-like extensions.

12. Where did Collins find another dig site?
(a) Five miles south of the original quarry.
(b) In Alaska.
(c) Five miles north of the original quarry.
(d) On the other side of the mountains.

13. What is the name of the small ribbon-shaped creation that is the first member known of the 'chordate' phylum?
(a) Nikaia.
(b) Oakaia.
(c) Mikaia.
(d) Pikaia.

14. What must evolutionary biologists specify concerning similarities and differences?
(a) Invertebrate types.
(b) Vertebrate types.
(c) Types and sub-types.
(d) Six types.

15. What did Act 3 explain?
(a) Idotixis is an arthropod.
(b) Idotixis is not an arthropod.
(c) Opabinia is not an arthropod.
(d) Opabinia is an arthropod.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What adjectives describe Whittington?

3. What did Morris push Whittington to do?

4. What did 1971 through 1978 bring for Whittington?

5. What is the seventh stage of development about?

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