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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. In what year did Leif Størmer describe the Burgess Shale arthropods in a treatise?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1959.

2. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?
(a) Which two classes to classify it in.
(b) Which class to make up.
(c) Which class it did not belong to.
(d) Which existing phyla to classify it in.

3. Which class did Whittington's dissenter say Aysehaia should be in?
(a) Amaraphora.
(b) Ekydidophora.
(c) Marinophora.
(d) Onychophora.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subtitle for this segment of the book?

2. What did Gould describe as characteristic of arthropods?

3. What are Marrella and Yohoia?

4. What new view did Whittington now understand?

5. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?

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