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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. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?
(a) Unique.
(b) Fluffy.
(c) Severed.
(d) Normal.

2. What was Whittington armed with that helped him review the claim that Opabinia was an arthropod?
(a) New tossils.
(b) New techniques.
(c) Old instructional manuals.
(d) New fossils.

3. How was Walcott's taxonomy significantly updated?
(a) Including new manera and genera.
(b) Including new marrella and phyla.
(c) Including new genera and phyla.
(d) Including new phyla and manera.

4. How did Whittington approach Yohoia?
(a) Moderately liberally.
(b) More conservatively.
(c) Less conservatively.
(d) Very liberally.

5. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?
(a) The idea of "contingency."
(b) The idea of "necrogenesis."
(c) The idea of "symbiosis."
(d) The idea of "plague."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?

2. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?

3. What bizarre features does Opabinia possess?

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

5. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?

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