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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 new view did Whittington now understand?
(a) Many Burgess fossils fit within one known taxonomy.
(b) Many Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.
(c) Few Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.
(d) No Burgess fossils fit within any known taxonomy.

2. What complex creature did Morris decide to focus on?
(a) Phylomari.
(b) Trixolo.
(c) Normaia.
(d) Wiwaxia.

3. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?
(a) Sebastian.
(b) Rutherford.
(c) Des Collins.
(d) Walcott.

4. Why did Whittington's next classification pose a problem?
(a) His tools malfunction.
(b) Whittington loses his classification charts.
(c) Naraoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.
(d) Yohoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.

5. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?
(a) Dissect them for a museum show.
(b) Cyrogenically preserve them.
(c) Reproduce them.
(d) Classify them into an already existing taxonomy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What association does Gould make with progress and evolution?

3. What type of example is Aysehaia?

4. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?

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

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