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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. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?
(a) Trilobite fossils.
(b) Pitolimite fossils.
(c) Bezoar fossils.
(d) Trixony fossils.

2. Which are the names of three rare arthropods in the Shale?
(a) Sartrocercus, Asheais, Actaeus.
(b) Acteria, Malaraia, Bulgara.
(c) Molaria, Actaeus, Sartrocercus.
(d) Molaria, Sartrocercus, Asheais.

3. Which creatures are representative of these four classes that survived the first great extinction?
(a) Snails, crabs and dragonflies.
(b) Eurypterid, mollusk, sea cucumbers.
(c) Dragonfly, a fossil eurypterid, a crab and a trilobite
(d) Dragonfly, crabs, and trilobites.

4. What five new species did Morris find?
(a) Hallucigenia, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, Maskinal, and Frutogenia.
(b) Fologenia, Maskinal, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, and Hallucigenia.
(c) Nectocaris, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, Amiskwia, and Hallucigenia.
(d) Hallucigenia, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, Amiskwia, and Malaria.

5. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?
(a) Compensatory cost.
(b) Monetary cost.
(c) Physical cost.
(d) Psychological cost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leanchoilia have that makes it look bizarre?

2. What adjective describes how Whittington first felt when working on Naraoia?

3. What did Whittington's revisions of the new paradigm become?

4. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?

5. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?

(see the answer key)

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