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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 Ds: decimation and destruction.
(d) The two Bs: barren and barinal.

2. Why did Whittington's next classification pose a problem?
(a) Yohoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.
(b) Whittington loses his classification charts.
(c) Naraoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.
(d) His tools malfunction.

3. What adjective describes how Whittington first felt when working on Naraoia?
(a) Frustrated.
(b) Excited.
(c) Worried.
(d) Anxious.

4. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?
(a) Dissect them for a museum show.
(b) Cyrogenically preserve them.
(c) Classify them into an already existing taxonomy.
(d) Reproduce them.

5. When did Whittington begin studying Opabinia?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1978.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Whittington publish a monograph on Yohoia?

2. What did Marrella and Yohoia still appear to be?

3. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?

4. What type of example is Aysehaia?

5. What was Yohoia specialized for?

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