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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act I. Marrella and Yohoia: The Dawning and Consolidation of Suspicion, 1971-1974.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Gould, what kind of insight does the Burgess Shale offer into the nature of life and the evolution of life forms?
(a) Unique insight.
(b) Distasteful insight.
(c) Normal insight.
(d) Weird insight.

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

3. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

4. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?
(a) Cilial types.
(b) Mollusk types.
(c) Arthropod types.
(d) Regenerative types.

5. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?
(a) Amoebas.
(b) Viruses.
(c) Vertebrates.
(d) Invertebrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Walcott's taxonomy significantly updated?

2. What do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?

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

4. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?

5. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?

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