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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. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?
(a) Naturalize the environment and take samples.
(b) Write a monograph on observation alone.
(c) Categorize each file according to specimen.
(d) Classify the specimen in taxonomy.

2. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?
(a) Charlie VanGuarden.
(b) Charles Walmont.
(c) Charles Doolittle Walcott.
(d) Dr. Doolittle.

3. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?
(a) Which existing phyla to classify it in.
(b) Which two classes to classify it in.
(c) Which class to make up.
(d) Which class it did not belong to.

4. What is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The largest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(b) The smallest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(c) The Canadian Rockies.
(d) A territory of British Columbia.

5. Where is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The Appalachian Mountains.
(b) The Canadian Rockies.
(c) Mt. Everest.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?

2. What pushed Whittington beyond the idea he struggled under?

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

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

5. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?

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