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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. How many specimens of Opabinia are in the Burgess Shale?
(a) Ten.
(b) Eight.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

2. How did the Burgess Shale's mysteries become apparent?
(a) An explanation of theory.
(b) A shift in mindset.
(c) A discovery of a fossil.
(d) A discovery of a chemical.

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

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

5. What does the Precambrian Era contain?
(a) Spatial, non-biological time and the decimation of single-celled life.
(b) Physical, non-linear time and the advent of multi-cellular life.
(c) Rational, linear logic and the advent of single-celled life.
(d) Geological, non-biological time and the advent of single-celled life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Marrella and Yohoia?

2. What kinds of versions does the story of the Burgess Shale's discovery have?

3. What does Gould focus on to bring the Burgess Shale into clear view?

4. In what fashion was the Burgess Shale actually discovered?

5. When did Whittington publish a monograph on Yohoia?

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