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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 make up periods?
(a) Advents and Periods.
(b) Decades.
(c) Eras.
(d) Epochs.

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

3. What large crab with an enormous number of spines did Collins publish a monograph on in 1985?
(a) Sanctacaris.
(b) Phylocaticis.
(c) Eskesis.
(d) Malactaris.

4. What did Gould say the next generation must do with the Burgess Shale?
(a) Work on it with new techniques and forms of paradigms.
(b) Fix it with revised techniques and forms of analysis.
(c) Work on it with old techniques and forms of analysis.
(d) Work on it with new techniques and forms of analysis.

5. What does Leanchoilia have that makes it look bizarre?
(a) A trivalve.
(b) A very large mouth.
(c) Two appendages that split into three whip-like extensions.
(d) Two toothy fins.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Naraoia help the Burgess Drama?

2. When did Whittington publish a monograph on Yohoia?

3. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?

4. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?

5. Why did Whittington's next classification pose a problem?

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