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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. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?
(a) After his wife's horse tripped and fell onto it.
(b) Before his son fell onto the Shale.
(c) After his son stumbled upon it.
(d) After his pistol whipped the dust.

2. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?
(a) Paleozoic Era.
(b) Maleozoic Era.
(c) Mesozoic Era.
(d) Pezozoic Era.

3. 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) Dissect them for a museum show.
(c) Cyrogenically preserve them.
(d) Reproduce them.

4. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?
(a) A new research paradigm.
(b) A provoking platonic paradigm.
(c) A controversial conservative paradigm.
(d) A leftover historical paradigm.

5. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?
(a) Vertebrates.
(b) Viruses.
(c) Invertebrates.
(d) Amoebas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Marella have that no trilobite shared?

2. What do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?

3. How many levels are there in the taxonomy of life?

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

5. How did Whittington approach Yohoia?

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