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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act 2. A New View Takes Hold: Homage to Opabinia, 1975.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which genus was Whittington focused on classifying in Chapter Three?
(a) Splendens.
(b) Minillera.
(c) Marrella.
(d) Hartoll.

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

3. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?
(a) Recast the fossils.
(b) Transport the fossils.
(c) Study the fossils.
(d) Organize the fossils.

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

5. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?
(a) Psychological cost.
(b) Physical cost.
(c) Monetary cost.
(d) Compensatory cost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?

2. What did Whittington do after assigning his students to work on some of the other genera?

3. What pushed Whittington beyond the idea he struggled under?

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

5. How does Leif Størmer spread the Burgess arthropods among the groups in the arthropod phylum?

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