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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. Who proposes to use the Burgess Shale to illustrate the nature of history?
(a) Steven Kay Gold.
(b) Stephen Jay Gould.
(c) Mary J. Gold.
(d) Marie Janine Gold.

2. What type of evidence concerning Opabinia is considered to be decisive?
(a) Its guts.
(b) Its structure.
(c) Its classification.
(d) Its distinctiveness.

3. What make up periods?
(a) Decades.
(b) Eras.
(c) Advents and Periods.
(d) Epochs.

4. What did Whittington use to dissect the carapace of Opabinia?
(a) Old tools.
(b) New methods.
(c) New tools.
(d) New stringents.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many levels are there in the taxonomy of life?

2. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?

3. How did the Burgess Shale's mysteries become apparent?

4. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?

5. What does the evolution of life contain, according to Gould's explanations and illustrations?

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