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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. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?
(a) Mesozoic Era.
(b) Maleozoic Era.
(c) Paleozoic Era.
(d) Pezozoic Era.

2. What is so strange about Opabinia that paleontologists found it unbelievable?
(a) The structure.
(b) The diagnosis.
(c) The proboscis.
(d) The function.

3. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?
(a) Regenerative types.
(b) Cilial types.
(c) Mollusk types.
(d) Arthropod types.

4. What part did Whittington dissect of Opabinia?
(a) The head.
(b) The legs.
(c) The arms.
(d) The carapace.

5. What did Whittington shockingly find after the dissection of Opabinia?
(a) A baby Opabinia.
(b) Two hearts.
(c) Nothing underneath the carapace at all.
(d) Another complete, yet smaller Opabinia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Leif Størmer describe the Burgess Shale arthropods in a treatise?

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

3. What compose eras?

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

5. How many specimens of Opabinia are in the Burgess Shale?

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