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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remainder of Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?
(a) The idea of "contingency."
(b) The idea of "symbiosis."
(c) The idea of "plague."
(d) The idea of "necrogenesis."

3. What is the Burgess Shale?
(a) A territory of British Columbia.
(b) The smallest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(c) The largest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(d) The Canadian Rockies.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two Ps?

2. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?

3. What five new species did Morris find?

4. What prevented Collins from excavating at Walcott's quarry?

5. When did Whittington begin studying Opabinia?

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