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

2. What was Leif Størmer's treatise on the Burgess Shale named?
(a) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.
(b) Treatise on Vertebrate Paleontology.
(c) Treatise on the Burgess Shale.
(d) Treatise on Plant and Fauna life of the Burgess Shale.

3. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?
(a) Normal.
(b) Unique.
(c) Severed.
(d) Fluffy.

4. What was Whittington's first monograph about?
(a) Opabinia.
(b) Goroia.
(c) Marrella.
(d) Splendens.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?

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

3. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?

4. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?

5. What does the Burgess Shale represent that occurred 570 million years ago?

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