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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. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?
(a) Barry Moser and Simeon Martin.
(b) Simon Conway Morris and Derek Briggs.
(c) Briggs Morris and Simon Conway.
(d) Jeremy Morris and Derek Briggs.

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

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

4. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?
(a) Rutherford.
(b) Sebastian.
(c) Des Collins.
(d) Walcott.

5. What was Whittington's first monograph about?
(a) Opabinia.
(b) Goroia.
(c) Splendens.
(d) Marrella.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Burgess Shale?

2. What was Whittington's 1979 monograph written about?

3. What did Whittington do after assigning his students to work on some of the other genera?

4. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?

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

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