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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the class of Burgess arthropods?
(a) Cansteromoids.
(b) Istoperoids.
(c) Momomoids.
(d) Merostomoids.

3. What type of example is Aysehaia?
(a) A lesser example.
(b) A omnipresent example.
(c) A godsend example.
(d) A further example.

4. What is the seventh stage of development about?
(a) Sharks.
(b) Crustaceans.
(c) Dinosaurs.
(d) Homo sapiens.

5. What did 1971 through 1978 bring for Whittington?
(a) Revolutionary changes and a new shift in perspective.
(b) No changes.
(c) Ten more new fossils.
(d) Devastating news that his research was no longer financed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the classification of animal species specifically warned to not be made on alone?

2. How did Gould come to understand the Burgess Shale?

3. What did Gould say the next generation must do with the Burgess Shale?

4. When did prokaryotic cells exist?

5. What did Whittington first think about Naraoia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is David Burton's published monograph on Sidneyia an important milestone?

2. How can Odaraia be described?

3. What did Sanctacaris look like?

4. What other monographs were published in 1981 concerning the Burgess Shale and by who?

5. How did Naraoia contribute to the Burgess Drama?

6. Why wasn't the discovery of the Burgess Shale and its consequent new shift in perspective a gradual change?

7. What sort of series does Chapter 4: Walcott's Vision and the Nature of History transition to and why?

8. What two major discoveries did Derek Briggs make?

9. Describe Wiwaxia.

10. How does Gould describe the relationship between Oxford advisors and their students?

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