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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. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

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

3. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?
(a) Three.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Four.
(d) Ninety-eight.

4. How was Whittington inclined to see Opabinia?
(a) As a lunatic.
(b) As crazy.
(c) As insane.
(d) As an oddball.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many levels are there in the taxonomy of life?

2. Which old category did the team focus on to classify Opabinia?

3. Which creatures are representative of these four classes that survived the first great extinction?

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

5. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?

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