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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 Whittington conclude about Yohoia in 1975?
(a) Yohoia is in multiple systems.
(b) Yohoia is an unknown trilobite.
(c) Yohoia is a known arthropod.
(d) Yohoia does not fit anywhere.

2. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The dissipation of marine life was progress.
(b) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.
(c) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress
(d) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.

3. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?
(a) Any taxonomic genus.
(b) Any species or phyla.
(c) Any known group of vertebrates.
(d) Any known group of arthropods.

4. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Ninety-eight.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many levels are there in the taxonomy of life?

2. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?

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

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

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

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