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

2. What kind of interpretation did Morris want of the Burgess Shale fossils?
(a) Morose.
(b) Grand.
(c) Radical.
(d) Lenient.

3. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Fifty.

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

5. What did Morris push Whittington to do?
(a) To do more and wonder less.
(b) To be less radical.
(c) To be more radical.
(d) To wonder more and do less.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Whittington's first monograph about?

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

3. What five new species did Morris find?

4. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?

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

(see the answer key)

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