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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 Gould describe as characteristic of arthropods?
(a) Hard, body shell.
(b) Bodily appendages.
(c) Odd segmented trunk.
(d) Noodly proboscis.

2. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?
(a) Historical Limitation.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Progressive Development.
(d) Theopathsis.

3. What new view did Whittington now understand?
(a) Many Burgess fossils fit within one known taxonomy.
(b) Few Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.
(c) No Burgess fossils fit within any known taxonomy.
(d) Many Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.

4. What pushed Whittington beyond the idea he struggled under?
(a) Wiwaxia.
(b) Yohoia.
(c) Opabinia.
(d) Marella.

5. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?
(a) 89%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 47%
(d) 96%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Whittington later note that he labored under?

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

3. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

4. What was Yohoia specialized for?

5. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?

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