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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remainder of Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What kind of picture do scientists have of multi-cellular animal life because of the Burgess Shale?
(a) General.
(b) Distinct.
(c) None.
(d) Imagined.

4. Which genus was Whittington focused on classifying in Chapter Three?
(a) Hartoll.
(b) Minillera.
(c) Marrella.
(d) Splendens.

5. What did Whittington restrain Morris from doing?
(a) From overreaching.
(b) From underreaching.
(c) From spinning out of control.
(d) From holding on to hard to his lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Burgess Shale's mysteries become apparent?

2. What do bats superficially resemble?

3. What was Whittington's first monograph about?

4. What does the 'grab bag' provided by the Burgess Shale consist of?

5. What do Oxford advisers not spend much of their time on, according to Gould?

(see the answer key)

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