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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. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?
(a) One year.
(b) Five and a half years.
(c) Four and a half years.
(d) Six months.

2. What bizarre features does Opabinia possess?
(a) Twenty limbs.
(b) Frontal nozzle and five eyes.
(c) No nose and three eyes.
(d) Eight noses and four eyes.

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

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

5. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?
(a) Arthropod types.
(b) Cilial types.
(c) Mollusk types.
(d) Regenerative types.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?

3. Which genus was Whittington focused on classifying in Chapter Three?

4. What does Gould focus on to bring the Burgess Shale into clear view?

5. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?

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