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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 does the Burgess Shale represent that occurred 570 million years ago?
(a) The "Prezoaic Explosion."
(b) The "Anthropological Explosion."
(c) The "Precambrian Explosion."
(d) The "Cambrian Explosion."

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

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

4. What did Whittington shockingly find after the dissection of Opabinia?
(a) Two hearts.
(b) A baby Opabinia.
(c) Nothing underneath the carapace at all.
(d) Another complete, yet smaller Opabinia.

5. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?
(a) 47%
(b) 5%.
(c) 96%.
(d) 89%.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Whittington's first monograph about?

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

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

5. What did Marrella and Yohoia still appear to be?

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