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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 was Opabinia's frontal nozzle not?
(a) A proboscis.
(b) A second mouth.
(c) A carapace.
(d) Part of its head.

2. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?
(a) Classify the specimen in taxonomy.
(b) Write a monograph on observation alone.
(c) Categorize each file according to specimen.
(d) Naturalize the environment and take samples.

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

4. What does Gould's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?
(a) It has a single order.
(b) It has two orders.
(c) It has no single order.
(d) It has five orders.

5. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?
(a) Which class to make up.
(b) Which two classes to classify it in.
(c) Which existing phyla to classify it in.
(d) Which class it did not belong to.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most common organism among the Burgess Shale fossils?

2. What was Yohoia specialized for?

3. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?

4. How was Walcott's taxonomy significantly updated?

5. What kind of development were the Burgess animals first interpreted to have?

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