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

2. Which creatures are representative of these four classes that survived the first great extinction?
(a) Dragonfly, a fossil eurypterid, a crab and a trilobite
(b) Snails, crabs and dragonflies.
(c) Eurypterid, mollusk, sea cucumbers.
(d) Dragonfly, crabs, and trilobites.

3. What type of example is Aysehaia?
(a) A godsend example.
(b) A omnipresent example.
(c) A lesser example.
(d) A further example.

4. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Physical.
(d) Emotional.

5. What type of evidence concerning Opabinia is considered to be decisive?
(a) Its structure.
(b) Its distinctiveness.
(c) Its classification.
(d) Its guts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of interpretation did Morris want of the Burgess Shale fossils?

2. How did Naraoia help the Burgess Drama?

3. What does Gould determine about the difference between eukaryotic fauna and the Burgess fauna?

4. What did Marella have that no trilobite shared?

5. What was once often a focus of the fauna?

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