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

2. What complex creature did Morris decide to focus on?
(a) Phylomari.
(b) Trixolo.
(c) Normaia.
(d) Wiwaxia.

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

4. What are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Brilliant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Walcott's taxonomy significantly updated?

2. What are Marrella and Yohoia?

3. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?

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

5. What does Gould say represents the Burgess message?

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