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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 was Leif Størmer's treatise on the Burgess Shale named?
(a) Treatise on the Burgess Shale.
(b) Treatise on Plant and Fauna life of the Burgess Shale.
(c) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.
(d) Treatise on Vertebrate Paleontology.

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

3. What did Marella have that no trilobite shared?
(a) Twenty ligaments.
(b) Large incisors.
(c) Two backs.
(d) Appendages.

4. What did Whittington later note that he labored under?
(a) The two Bs: barren and barinal.
(b) The two Ps: primitive and precursor.
(c) The two Ps: polyanimate and precursor.
(d) The two Ds: decimation and destruction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?

2. When did Whittington publish a monograph on Yohoia?

3. In what fashion was the Burgess Shale actually discovered?

4. What is the Burgess Shale?

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

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