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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. Where was Opabinia quoted to belong?
(a) Among the crustaceans.
(b) Nowhere among the known animals.
(c) In the third genus.
(d) With the arthropods.

2. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?
(a) Jeremy Morris and Derek Briggs.
(b) Briggs Morris and Simon Conway.
(c) Simon Conway Morris and Derek Briggs.
(d) Barry Moser and Simeon Martin.

3. What are Marrella and Yohoia?
(a) Evolutionary cousins.
(b) Evolutionary dead-ends.
(c) Known animals from Earth.
(d) Animals from another universe.

4. What does Gould's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?
(a) It has five orders.
(b) It has two orders.
(c) It has a single order.
(d) It has no single order.

5. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?
(a) Before his son fell onto the Shale.
(b) After his pistol whipped the dust.
(c) After his son stumbled upon it.
(d) After his wife's horse tripped and fell onto it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

3. What part did Whittington dissect of Opabinia?

4. In what year did Leif Størmer describe the Burgess Shale arthropods in a treatise?

5. What was Leif Størmer's treatise on the Burgess Shale named?

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