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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 compose eras?
(a) Times and Seasons.
(b) Periods.
(c) Epochs and Ages.
(d) Advents and Periods.

2. What did Whittington conclude about Yohoia in 1975?
(a) Yohoia does not fit anywhere.
(b) Yohoia is a known arthropod.
(c) Yohoia is in multiple systems.
(d) Yohoia is an unknown trilobite.

3. In what fashion was the Burgess Shale actually discovered?
(a) A sympathetic fashion.
(b) A respectable fashion.
(c) A more mundane fashion.
(d) A reasonable fashion.

4. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?
(a) Trilobite fossils.
(b) Trixony fossils.
(c) Pitolimite fossils.
(d) Bezoar fossils.

5. What are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?
(a) Apathetic.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Brilliant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Burgess Shale?

2. Who dissented with Whittington about Aysehaia?

3. What did Walcott think Opabinia was just another one of?

4. What adjectives describe Morris?

5. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?

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