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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. Which creatures are representative of these four classes that survived the first great extinction?
(a) Dragonfly, a fossil eurypterid, a crab and a trilobite
(b) Snails, crabs and dragonflies.
(c) Dragonfly, crabs, and trilobites.
(d) Eurypterid, mollusk, sea cucumbers.

2. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?
(a) Dr. John Whit and his colleagues.
(b) Professor Matt Stephens and his wife.
(c) Dr. Whittington of Yale and her husband.
(d) Professor Harry Whittington of Cambridge and his colleagues.

3. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Theopathsis.
(c) Historical Limitation.
(d) Progressive Development.

4. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?
(a) Physical.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Emotional.

5. How does Leif Størmer spread the Burgess arthropods among the groups in the arthropod phylum?
(a) Narrowly.
(b) Widely.
(c) Minutely.
(d) Hardly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?

2. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?

3. What kind of lessons does Stephen Jay Gould draw from how the Burgess Shale was first interpreted?

4. What does the evolution of life contain, according to Gould's explanations and illustrations?

5. What compose eras?

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