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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 did Marrella and Yohoia still appear to be?
(a) Unknown creatures.
(b) Crustaceans.
(c) Arthropods.
(d) Vertebrates.

2. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?
(a) Whittington.
(b) Conway Morris.
(c) Simeon Martin.
(d) Derek Briggs.

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

4. What association does Gould make with progress and evolution?
(a) Evolution is progress.
(b) Evolution is scattered progress.
(c) Evolution doesn't always involve progress.
(d) Evolution always involves progress.

5. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?
(a) Four.
(b) Ninety-eight.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Whittington dissect Opabinia?

2. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?

3. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?

4. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?

5. What does Gould's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?

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