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

2. What was Whittington armed with that helped him review the claim that Opabinia was an arthropod?
(a) New tossils.
(b) New fossils.
(c) New techniques.
(d) Old instructional manuals.

3. According to Gould, what kind of insight does the Burgess Shale offer into the nature of life and the evolution of life forms?
(a) Unique insight.
(b) Distasteful insight.
(c) Weird insight.
(d) Normal insight.

4. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?
(a) Charlie VanGuarden.
(b) Dr. Doolittle.
(c) Charles Doolittle Walcott.
(d) Charles Walmont.

5. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?
(a) One year.
(b) Five and a half years.
(c) Six months.
(d) Four and a half years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subtitle for this segment of the book?

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

3. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?

4. What do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?

5. Why did Whittington dissect Opabinia?

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