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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) Eurypterid, mollusk, sea cucumbers.
(d) Dragonfly, crabs, and trilobites.

2. What was Whittington's first monograph about?
(a) Marrella.
(b) Goroia.
(c) Splendens.
(d) Opabinia.

3. What does Gould's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?
(a) It has five orders.
(b) It has a single order.
(c) It has two orders.
(d) It has no single order.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who proposes to use the Burgess Shale to illustrate the nature of history?

2. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

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

4. What kind of development were the Burgess animals first interpreted to have?

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

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