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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 Whittington armed with that helped him review the claim that Opabinia was an arthropod?
(a) New fossils.
(b) New techniques.
(c) Old instructional manuals.
(d) New tossils.

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

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

4. Which genus was Whittington focused on classifying in Chapter Three?
(a) Hartoll.
(b) Minillera.
(c) Splendens.
(d) Marrella.

5. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?
(a) Normal.
(b) Unique.
(c) Severed.
(d) Fluffy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gould describe as characteristic of arthropods?

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

3. How does Leif Størmer spread the Burgess arthropods among the groups in the arthropod phylum?

4. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?

5. What kinds of versions does the story of the Burgess Shale's discovery have?

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