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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. Which creatures are representative of these four classes that survived the first great extinction?
(a) Snails, crabs and dragonflies.
(b) Eurypterid, mollusk, sea cucumbers.
(c) Dragonfly, crabs, and trilobites.
(d) Dragonfly, a fossil eurypterid, a crab and a trilobite

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

3. Why is the Burgess Shale such an amazing find?
(a) It contains no creatures.
(b) It contains soft-bodied creatures.
(c) It contains hard-bodied creatures.
(d) It contains five thousand creatures.

4. What kind of similarities and differences must scientists attend to?
(a) Shallow.
(b) Deep.
(c) Fair to middling.
(d) None.

5. What is the problem with the Burgess Shale in relation to many of the similarities and distinctions?
(a) The classification system needs a complete overview.
(b) Only two are known and there are no classifications to put them in.
(c) Many are unknown and this makes classification difficult.
(d) Few are unknown and there are so many different classifications.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morris publish while still in graduate school?

2. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?

3. What must evolutionary biologists specify concerning similarities and differences?

4. What does Gould say represents the Burgess message?

5. What did Whittington restrain Morris from doing?

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