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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act 4. Completion and Codiication of an Argument: Naraoia and Aysheaia, 1977-1978..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Whittington do after assigning his students to work on some of the other genera?
(a) Begins work on Yohoia.
(b) Begins his monograph on Opabinia.
(c) Finishes his monograph on Wiwaxia.
(d) Ends work on Yohoia.

2. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?
(a) Six months.
(b) One year.
(c) Five and a half years.
(d) Four and a half years.

3. What does the Precambrian Era contain?
(a) Geological, non-biological time and the advent of single-celled life.
(b) Spatial, non-biological time and the decimation of single-celled life.
(c) Physical, non-linear time and the advent of multi-cellular life.
(d) Rational, linear logic and the advent of single-celled life.

4. What did Whittington use to dissect the carapace of Opabinia?
(a) Old tools.
(b) New methods.
(c) New tools.
(d) New stringents.

5. What happened after Whittington published his monograph on Naraoia?
(a) He begins work on Aysheaia.
(b) He takes a break.
(c) He becomes famous.
(d) He is promoted to Chief Curator of the Smithsonian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part did Whittington dissect of Opabinia?

2. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?

3. What was Whittington's 1979 monograph written about?

4. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?

5. When was the famed "death of the dinosaurs?"

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