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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 Whittington use to dissect the carapace of Opabinia?
(a) Old tools.
(b) New stringents.
(c) New methods.
(d) New tools.

2. In what fashion was the Burgess Shale actually discovered?
(a) A respectable fashion.
(b) A sympathetic fashion.
(c) A reasonable fashion.
(d) A more mundane fashion.

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

4. Why did Whittington dissect Opabinia?
(a) To uncover its bodily appendages.
(b) To look at its heart.
(c) To uncover its organs.
(d) To find its liver.

5. 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 evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.
(d) The dissipation of marine life was progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dissented with Whittington about Aysehaia?

2. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?

3. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?

4. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?

5. What new view did Whittington now understand?

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