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

2. What association does Gould make with progress and evolution?
(a) Evolution is scattered progress.
(b) Evolution doesn't always involve progress.
(c) Evolution is progress.
(d) Evolution always involves progress.

3. What did Whittington do after assigning his students to work on some of the other genera?
(a) Begins work on Yohoia.
(b) Finishes his monograph on Wiwaxia.
(c) Ends work on Yohoia.
(d) Begins his monograph on Opabinia.

4. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?
(a) Dr. Whittington of Yale and her husband.
(b) Dr. John Whit and his colleagues.
(c) Professor Harry Whittington of Cambridge and his colleagues.
(d) Professor Matt Stephens and his wife.

5. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?
(a) Classify them into an already existing taxonomy.
(b) Cyrogenically preserve them.
(c) Dissect them for a museum show.
(d) Reproduce them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?

2. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?

3. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?

4. Where is the Burgess Shale?

5. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?

(see the answer key)

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