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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. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twelve.

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

3. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?
(a) Organize the fossils.
(b) Transport the fossils.
(c) Study the fossils.
(d) Recast the fossils.

4. How was Walcott's taxonomy significantly updated?
(a) Including new manera and genera.
(b) Including new phyla and manera.
(c) Including new genera and phyla.
(d) Including new marrella and phyla.

5. What kind of lessons does Stephen Jay Gould draw from how the Burgess Shale was first interpreted?
(a) Methodological and philosophical lessons.
(b) Conservative and biological lessons.
(c) Medieval and historical lessons.
(d) Religious and traditional lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What association does Gould make with progress and evolution?

2. When was the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras?

3. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?

4. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?

5. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?

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