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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 later note that he labored under?
(a) The two Ps: primitive and precursor.
(b) The two Ps: polyanimate and precursor.
(c) The two Bs: barren and barinal.
(d) The two Ds: decimation and destruction.

2. What does Act 4 do?
(a) Slow things down.
(b) Speed things up.
(c) Keep things conservative.
(d) Skip to the fifth act.

3. When was the famed "death of the dinosaurs?"
(a) 65 million years ago.
(b) 10 million years ago.
(c) 100 thousand million years ago.
(d) 20 million years ago.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?

2. Which genus was Whittington focused on classifying in Chapter Three?

3. What make up periods?

4. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?

5. How does Leif Størmer spread the Burgess arthropods among the groups in the arthropod phylum?

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