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

2. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?
(a) Hardly.
(b) Minutely.
(c) Narrowly.
(d) Widely.

3. What did Marella have that no trilobite shared?
(a) Large incisors.
(b) Twenty ligaments.
(c) Appendages.
(d) Two backs.

4. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?
(a) Progressive Development.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Historical Limitation.
(d) Theopathsis.

5. What part did Whittington dissect of Opabinia?
(a) The arms.
(b) The carapace.
(c) The legs.
(d) The head.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?

2. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?

3. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

4. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?

5. What was Whittington's 1979 monograph written about?

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