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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 is the third stage of the fauna?
(a) The Pre-Cambrian explosion.
(b) The introduction of the spine.
(c) The introduction of the egg.
(d) The Cambrian explosion.

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

3. What did the dissenter believe should happen to Aysehaia?
(a) It should be retained in a known class.
(b) It should spread to the lower classes.
(c) It should not exist.
(d) It should jump two classes.

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

5. What did Marella have that no trilobite shared?
(a) Appendages.
(b) Large incisors.
(c) Twenty ligaments.
(d) Two backs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pushed Whittington beyond the idea he struggled under?

2. What is the second subtitle for the Act 5 chapter?

3. Why did Whittington's next classification pose a problem?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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