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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. Where is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The Canadian Rockies.
(b) The Appalachian Mountains.
(c) England.
(d) Mt. Everest.

2. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?
(a) Mollusk types.
(b) Arthropod types.
(c) Regenerative types.
(d) Cilial types.

3. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?
(a) Which class it did not belong to.
(b) Which class to make up.
(c) Which existing phyla to classify it in.
(d) Which two classes to classify it in.

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

5. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?
(a) Compensatory cost.
(b) Physical cost.
(c) Monetary cost.
(d) Psychological cost.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of development were the Burgess animals first interpreted to have?

3. What is so strange about Opabinia that paleontologists found it unbelievable?

4. What did Whittington's revisions of the new paradigm become?

5. What is the first subtitle for the Act 5 chapter?

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