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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 make up periods?
(a) Eras.
(b) Decades.
(c) Epochs.
(d) Advents and Periods.

2. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?
(a) Four and a half years.
(b) Five and a half years.
(c) One year.
(d) Six months.

3. What did Whittington shockingly find after the dissection of Opabinia?
(a) Another complete, yet smaller Opabinia.
(b) Two hearts.
(c) A baby Opabinia.
(d) Nothing underneath the carapace at all.

4. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress
(b) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(c) The dissipation of marine life was progress.
(d) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.

5. How was Walcott's taxonomy significantly updated?
(a) Including new genera and phyla.
(b) Including new marrella and phyla.
(c) Including new phyla and manera.
(d) Including new manera and genera.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many levels are there in the taxonomy of life?

2. What example helped round out the Burgess revision?

3. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?

4. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

5. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?

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