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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 separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(b) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.
(c) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress
(d) The dissipation of marine life was progress.

2. According to Gould, what kind of insight does the Burgess Shale offer into the nature of life and the evolution of life forms?
(a) Distasteful insight.
(b) Weird insight.
(c) Unique insight.
(d) Normal insight.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Whittington approach Yohoia?

2. What is the Burgess Shale?

3. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?

4. Which genus was Whittington focused on classifying in Chapter Three?

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

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