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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 levels are there in the taxonomy of life?
(a) None.
(b) Several.
(c) Few.
(d) Hundreds.

2. How does Leif Størmer spread the Burgess arthropods among the groups in the arthropod phylum?
(a) Minutely.
(b) Hardly.
(c) Narrowly.
(d) Widely.

3. When did Whittington publish a monograph on Yohoia?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1977.

4. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?
(a) Explaining the last chapter's conclusion.
(b) Explaining which animals are in the Burgess Shale.
(c) Explaining how scientists divide up historical epochs.
(d) Explaining what the Burgess Shale represents.

5. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?
(a) Five and a half years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Four and a half years.
(d) One year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Whittington later note that he labored under?

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

3. According to Gould, what kind of insight does the Burgess Shale offer into the nature of life and the evolution of life forms?

4. What did Whittington do after assigning his students to work on some of the other genera?

5. What is the Burgess Shale?

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