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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. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?
(a) Hardly.
(b) Narrowly.
(c) Minutely.
(d) Widely.

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

3. What did Walcott think Opabinia was just another one of?
(a) Anemone.
(b) Mollusk.
(c) Crustacean.
(d) Plant.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Whittington first think about Naraoia?

3. How many specimens of Opabinia are in the Burgess Shale?

4. What happened after Whittington published his monograph on Naraoia?

5. What was Whittington armed with that helped him review the claim that Opabinia was an arthropod?

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