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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 did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?
(a) Recast the fossils.
(b) Organize the fossils.
(c) Study the fossils.
(d) Transport the fossils.

2. What did Whittington do after assigning his students to work on some of the other genera?
(a) Begins work on Yohoia.
(b) Finishes his monograph on Wiwaxia.
(c) Ends work on Yohoia.
(d) Begins his monograph on Opabinia.

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

4. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twelve.

5. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?
(a) Invertebrates.
(b) Amoebas.
(c) Vertebrates.
(d) Viruses.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?

3. When was the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras?

4. What is the Burgess Shale?

5. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?

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