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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Walcott's Vision and the Nature of History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Dolf Seilacher, what did early eukaryotes exhibit?
(a) A complexity that could have led to narrower diversity.
(b) A simplicity that could have led to more diversity.
(c) A complexity that could have led to more diversity.
(d) A simplicity that could have led to narrower diversity.

2. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?
(a) One.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

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

4. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of picture do scientists have of multi-cellular animal life because of the Burgess Shale?

2. What is the name of the class of Burgess arthropods?

3. What did Whittington later note that he labored under?

4. What make up periods?

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

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