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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 does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?
(a) Minutely.
(b) Widely.
(c) Hardly.
(d) Narrowly.

2. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?
(a) The development of large tortoises and sharks.
(b) The development of large mammals like humans.
(c) The development of rodents.
(d) The development of smaller mammals.

3. What pushed Whittington beyond the idea he struggled under?
(a) Opabinia.
(b) Wiwaxia.
(c) Yohoia.
(d) Marella.

4. What compose eras?
(a) Periods.
(b) Advents and Periods.
(c) Times and Seasons.
(d) Epochs and Ages.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?

3. In what year did Leif Størmer describe the Burgess Shale arthropods in a treatise?

4. What was Leif Størmer's treatise on the Burgess Shale named?

5. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?

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