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

2. Why did Whittington's next classification pose a problem?
(a) Yohoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.
(b) Whittington loses his classification charts.
(c) Naraoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.
(d) His tools malfunction.

3. What are Marrella and Yohoia?
(a) Evolutionary dead-ends.
(b) Animals from another universe.
(c) Known animals from Earth.
(d) Evolutionary cousins.

4. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?
(a) Jeremy Morris and Derek Briggs.
(b) Briggs Morris and Simon Conway.
(c) Simon Conway Morris and Derek Briggs.
(d) Barry Moser and Simeon Martin.

5. Who dissented with Whittington about Aysehaia?
(a) Gould.
(b) Des Collins.
(c) Mary Whittington.
(d) Smiths.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bizarre features does Opabinia possess?

2. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?

3. Which creatures are representative of these four classes that survived the first great extinction?

4. When was the famed "death of the dinosaurs?"

5. What years did Whittington work on Naraoia and Aysheaia?

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