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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. How does Leif Størmer spread the Burgess arthropods among the groups in the arthropod phylum?
(a) Hardly.
(b) Widely.
(c) Minutely.
(d) Narrowly.

2. What did Act 3 explain?
(a) Opabinia is not an arthropod.
(b) Opabinia is an arthropod.
(c) Idotixis is an arthropod.
(d) Idotixis is not an arthropod.

3. When did Whittington begin studying Opabinia?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1975.

4. What prevented Collins from excavating at Walcott's quarry?
(a) Marginal reasons.
(b) Philosophical reasons.
(c) Geological reasons.
(d) Ecological reasons.

5. Which are the names of three rare arthropods in the Shale?
(a) Molaria, Actaeus, Sartrocercus.
(b) Molaria, Sartrocercus, Asheais.
(c) Acteria, Malaraia, Bulgara.
(d) Sartrocercus, Asheais, Actaeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Whittington armed with that helped him review the claim that Opabinia was an arthropod?

2. What did Morris publish while still in graduate school?

3. What is the most common organism among the Burgess Shale fossils?

4. What new view did Whittington now understand?

5. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?

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