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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 is the problem with the Burgess Shale in relation to many of the similarities and distinctions?
(a) Few are unknown and there are so many different classifications.
(b) The classification system needs a complete overview.
(c) Only two are known and there are no classifications to put them in.
(d) Many are unknown and this makes classification difficult.

2. What did Whittington shockingly find after the dissection of Opabinia?
(a) Nothing underneath the carapace at all.
(b) A baby Opabinia.
(c) Another complete, yet smaller Opabinia.
(d) Two hearts.

3. How did Naraoia help the Burgess Drama?
(a) By helping complete it.
(b) By helping save it.
(c) By helping summon it.
(d) By helping destroy it.

4. What bizarre features does Opabinia possess?
(a) Twenty limbs.
(b) No nose and three eyes.
(c) Frontal nozzle and five eyes.
(d) Eight noses and four eyes.

5. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?
(a) Which two classes to classify it in.
(b) Which existing phyla to classify it in.
(c) Which class it did not belong to.
(d) Which class to make up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example helped round out the Burgess revision?

2. How can Odaraia be described?

3. What is the Burgess Shale?

4. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?

5. What did Whittington later note that he labored under?

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