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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 kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?
(a) A controversial conservative paradigm.
(b) A leftover historical paradigm.
(c) A provoking platonic paradigm.
(d) A new research paradigm.

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

3. What was Whittington's first monograph about?
(a) Marrella.
(b) Goroia.
(c) Opabinia.
(d) Splendens.

4. What is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The smallest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(b) The Canadian Rockies.
(c) The largest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(d) A territory of British Columbia.

5. What is the most common organism among the Burgess Shale fossils?
(a) Sanctocaris.
(b) Signi marella.
(c) Marrella splendens.
(d) Titilla splendens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gould describe as characteristic of arthropods?

2. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?

3. What association does Gould make with progress and evolution?

4. What did Marella have that no trilobite shared?

5. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?

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