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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act I. Marrella and Yohoia: The Dawning and Consolidation of Suspicion, 1971-1974.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What make up periods?
(a) Epochs.
(b) Eras.
(c) Decades.
(d) Advents and Periods.

2. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?
(a) A leftover historical paradigm.
(b) A provoking platonic paradigm.
(c) A new research paradigm.
(d) A controversial conservative paradigm.

3. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?
(a) The idea of "plague."
(b) The idea of "symbiosis."
(c) The idea of "necrogenesis."
(d) The idea of "contingency."

4. What did Whittington conclude about Yohoia in 1975?
(a) Yohoia does not fit anywhere.
(b) Yohoia is an unknown trilobite.
(c) Yohoia is a known arthropod.
(d) Yohoia is in multiple systems.

5. What did Whittington later note that he labored under?
(a) The two Bs: barren and barinal.
(b) The two Ps: primitive and precursor.
(c) The two Ps: polyanimate and precursor.
(d) The two Ds: decimation and destruction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?

2. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?

3. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?

4. How does Leif Størmer spread the Burgess arthropods among the groups in the arthropod phylum?

5. What was Whittington's 1979 monograph written about?

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