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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) Twenty.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twelve.

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

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

4. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?
(a) Which class it did not belong to.
(b) Which class to make up.
(c) Which two classes to classify it in.
(d) Which existing phyla to classify it in.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?

3. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?

4. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?

5. When was the famed "death of the dinosaurs?"

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