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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 Marella have that no trilobite shared?
(a) Twenty ligaments.
(b) Two backs.
(c) Appendages.
(d) Large incisors.

2. What is the most common organism among the Burgess Shale fossils?
(a) Marrella splendens.
(b) Sanctocaris.
(c) Signi marella.
(d) Titilla splendens.

3. Which genus was Whittington focused on classifying in Chapter Three?
(a) Splendens.
(b) Hartoll.
(c) Minillera.
(d) Marrella.

4. What was Whittington armed with that helped him review the claim that Opabinia was an arthropod?
(a) New fossils.
(b) New techniques.
(c) Old instructional manuals.
(d) New tossils.

5. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?
(a) Explaining how scientists divide up historical epochs.
(b) Explaining what the Burgess Shale represents.
(c) Explaining the last chapter's conclusion.
(d) Explaining which animals are in the Burgess Shale.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what fashion was the Burgess Shale actually discovered?

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

3. What make up periods?

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

5. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?

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