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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 do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?
(a) Phyla to classes.
(b) Kingdom to species.
(c) Phyla to species.
(d) Orders to genera.

2. What did Whittington's revisions of the new paradigm become?
(a) A research paradigm.
(b) A cultural paradigm.
(c) A religious paradigm.
(d) A statistical paradigm.

3. What part did Whittington dissect of Opabinia?
(a) The carapace.
(b) The head.
(c) The arms.
(d) The legs.

4. What is the name of the class of Burgess arthropods?
(a) Merostomoids.
(b) Cansteromoids.
(c) Istoperoids.
(d) Momomoids.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Walcott think Opabinia was just another one of?

2. What kind of lessons does Stephen Jay Gould draw from how the Burgess Shale was first interpreted?

3. In what fashion was the Burgess Shale actually discovered?

4. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?

5. What did Gould note about the Burgess work at this time, in Act 5?

(see the answer key)

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