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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) Trixony fossils.
(b) Pitolimite fossils.
(c) Trilobite fossils.
(d) Bezoar fossils.

2. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?
(a) Charles Doolittle Walcott.
(b) Dr. Doolittle.
(c) Charlie VanGuarden.
(d) Charles Walmont.

3. What does the Precambrian Era contain?
(a) Geological, non-biological time and the advent of single-celled life.
(b) Physical, non-linear time and the advent of multi-cellular life.
(c) Spatial, non-biological time and the decimation of single-celled life.
(d) Rational, linear logic and the advent of single-celled life.

4. What are the evidences for Opabinia that are considered undeniable?
(a) The segments of its gut and the shape of its trunk.
(b) The shape of its trunk and the segments of its gut.
(c) The shape of its gut and the segments of its trunk.
(d) The shape of its carapace and the segments of its trunk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?

2. What do bats superficially resemble?

3. What did 1971 through 1978 bring for Whittington?

4. What did Whittington shockingly find after the dissection of Opabinia?

5. Which creatures are representative of these four classes that survived the first great extinction?

(see the answer key)

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