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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. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?
(a) Ninety-eight.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Twenty.

2. What was Whittington's 1979 monograph written about?
(a) Cataloging Opabinia.
(b) Monitoring Wiwaxia.
(c) Cataloging Marella splendens.
(d) Dissecting Sanctocrabis.

3. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?
(a) The idea of "contingency."
(b) The idea of "necrogenesis."
(c) The idea of "symbiosis."
(d) The idea of "plague."

4. When was the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras?
(a) 20 thousand years ago.
(b) 355 million years ago.
(c) 225 million years ago.
(d) 225 thousand years ago.

5. How did Whittington approach Yohoia?
(a) Moderately liberally.
(b) Less conservatively.
(c) More conservatively.
(d) Very liberally.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?

2. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?

3. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?

4. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?

5. What does Gould's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?

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