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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. What are Marrella and Yohoia?
(a) Known animals from Earth.
(b) Evolutionary dead-ends.
(c) Evolutionary cousins.
(d) Animals from another universe.

2. Which team member has Gould largely ignored at this point?
(a) Simon Morris.
(b) Derek Briggs.
(c) Simon Conway.
(d) General Briggs.

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

4. What is Canadaspis?
(a) A nervous system.
(b) A carapace.
(c) A squid.
(d) A crustacean.

5. What type of evidence concerning Opabinia is considered to be decisive?
(a) Its structure.
(b) Its distinctiveness.
(c) Its guts.
(d) Its classification.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened from 1971 through 1978 that changed everything?

2. What does Opabinia need?

3. What are the evidences for Opabinia that are considered undeniable?

4. What is the Burgess Shale?

5. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?

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