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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 association does Gould make with progress and evolution?
(a) Evolution is progress.
(b) Evolution doesn't always involve progress.
(c) Evolution always involves progress.
(d) Evolution is scattered progress.

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

3. What are Marrella and Yohoia?
(a) Known animals from Earth.
(b) Evolutionary dead-ends.
(c) Evolutionary cousins.
(d) Animals from another universe.

4. What did Whittington first think about Naraoia?
(a) It is the grandfather of Marella.
(b) It is the first trilobite.
(c) It is a unique form of trilobite.
(d) It is the cousin of Yohoia.

5. What did Marella have that no trilobite shared?
(a) Twenty ligaments.
(b) Appendages.
(c) Two backs.
(d) Large incisors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Bruton and Whittington do in 1983 in a monograph?

3. What large crab with an enormous number of spines did Collins publish a monograph on in 1985?

4. What did Gould describe as characteristic of arthropods?

5. What is the Burgess Shale?

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