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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 second mouth.
(b) Part of its head.
(c) A proboscis.
(d) A carapace.

2. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?
(a) Explaining the last chapter's conclusion.
(b) Explaining what the Burgess Shale represents.
(c) Explaining how scientists divide up historical epochs.
(d) Explaining which animals are in the Burgess Shale.

3. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?
(a) Charlie VanGuarden.
(b) Dr. Doolittle.
(c) Charles Doolittle Walcott.
(d) Charles Walmont.

4. What did Gould describe as characteristic of arthropods?
(a) Odd segmented trunk.
(b) Noodly proboscis.
(c) Bodily appendages.
(d) Hard, body shell.

5. What compose eras?
(a) Epochs and Ages.
(b) Times and Seasons.
(c) Advents and Periods.
(d) Periods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?

2. What bizarre features does Opabinia possess?

3. What part did Whittington dissect of Opabinia?

4. What did Whittington shockingly find after the dissection of Opabinia?

5. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?

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