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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act 5. The Maturation of a Research Program: Life after Aysheaia, 1979 - Doomsday (There Are No Final Answers).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Whittington's first monograph about?
(a) Splendens.
(b) Marrella.
(c) Goroia.
(d) Opabinia.

2. What happened from 1971 through 1978 that changed everything?
(a) Gradually.
(b) Sporadic leaps in clarity.
(c) Two months of pondering.
(d) Years of scientific debate.

3. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Twelve.

4. What did Whittington restrain Morris from doing?
(a) From spinning out of control.
(b) From holding on to hard to his lessons.
(c) From overreaching.
(d) From underreaching.

5. When was the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras?
(a) 225 million years ago.
(b) 20 thousand years ago.
(c) 355 million years ago.
(d) 225 thousand years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of lessons does Stephen Jay Gould draw from how the Burgess Shale was first interpreted?

2. According to Gould, what kind of insight does the Burgess Shale offer into the nature of life and the evolution of life forms?

3. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?

4. How was Whittington inclined to see Opabinia?

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

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