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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 types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?
(a) Cilial types.
(b) Arthropod types.
(c) Regenerative types.
(d) Mollusk types.

2. What kind of development were the Burgess animals first interpreted to have?
(a) Regressing development.
(b) Quick, rash development.
(c) Unchanging development.
(d) Gradual, progressive development.

3. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?
(a) Classify the specimen in taxonomy.
(b) Write a monograph on observation alone.
(c) Categorize each file according to specimen.
(d) Naturalize the environment and take samples.

4. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?
(a) Charles Doolittle Walcott.
(b) Charlie VanGuarden.
(c) Charles Walmont.
(d) Dr. Doolittle.

5. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(b) The dissipation of marine life was progress.
(c) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress
(d) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Whittington approach Yohoia?

2. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?

3. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?

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

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

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