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

2. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?
(a) The development of rodents.
(b) The development of large mammals like humans.
(c) The development of smaller mammals.
(d) The development of large tortoises and sharks.

3. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?
(a) Any known group of vertebrates.
(b) Any taxonomic genus.
(c) Any known group of arthropods.
(d) Any species or phyla.

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

5. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Ninety-eight.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new view did Whittington now understand?

2. What did Marella have that no trilobite shared?

3. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?

4. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?

5. What is the most common organism among the Burgess Shale fossils?

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