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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. Why did Whittington dissect Opabinia?
(a) To look at its heart.
(b) To uncover its organs.
(c) To uncover its bodily appendages.
(d) To find its liver.

2. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?
(a) Betrayed science's aims.
(b) Completely revamped scientific studies.
(c) Greatly served the aims and goals of science.
(d) Betrayed his own principles.

3. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?
(a) Any species or phyla.
(b) Any known group of arthropods.
(c) Any known group of vertebrates.
(d) Any taxonomic genus.

4. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?
(a) Narrowly.
(b) Minutely.
(c) Hardly.
(d) Widely.

5. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.
(b) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress
(c) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(d) The dissipation of marine life was progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?

2. What is the Burgess Shale?

3. How was Walcott's taxonomy significantly updated?

4. In what year did Leif Størmer describe the Burgess Shale arthropods in a treatise?

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

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