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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 was Leif Størmer's treatise on the Burgess Shale named?
(a) Treatise on the Burgess Shale.
(b) Treatise on Vertebrate Paleontology.
(c) Treatise on Plant and Fauna life of the Burgess Shale.
(d) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.

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

3. What kinds of versions does the story of the Burgess Shale's discovery have?
(a) A old, more accurate version and a newer, less accurate version.
(b) An old, less accurate version and a newer, more accurate version.
(c) Two of more or less the same version.
(d) A newer, less accurate version and an older, more accurate version.

4. What was Whittington's first monograph about?
(a) Marrella.
(b) Splendens.
(c) Opabinia.
(d) Goroia.

5. What new view did Whittington now understand?
(a) Many Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.
(b) Few Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.
(c) Many Burgess fossils fit within one known taxonomy.
(d) No Burgess fossils fit within any known taxonomy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Whittington approach Yohoia?

2. How can Odaraia be described?

3. What did Marrella and Yohoia still appear to be?

4. Which are the names of three rare arthropods in the Shale?

5. What example helped round out the Burgess revision?

(see the answer key)

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