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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 pushed Whittington beyond the idea he struggled under?
(a) Yohoia.
(b) Opabinia.
(c) Wiwaxia.
(d) Marella.

2. When was the famed "death of the dinosaurs?"
(a) 65 million years ago.
(b) 20 million years ago.
(c) 10 million years ago.
(d) 100 thousand million years ago.

3. What was Yohoia specialized for?
(a) A species.
(b) A kingdom.
(c) A habitat.
(d) An environment.

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

5. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?
(a) Professor Matt Stephens and his wife.
(b) Professor Harry Whittington of Cambridge and his colleagues.
(c) Dr. Whittington of Yale and her husband.
(d) Dr. John Whit and his colleagues.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Burgess Shale?

2. What did Walcott think Opabinia was just another one of?

3. What did Gould describe as characteristic of arthropods?

4. What did Marella have that no trilobite shared?

5. How did the Burgess Shale's mysteries become apparent?

(see the answer key)

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