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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Possible Worlds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first subtitle for the Act 5 chapter?
(a) The Maturation of a Research Program: Life after Aysheaia.
(b) The Maturation of a Paradigm Program: Life after Aysheaia.
(c) The Development of a Research Program: Life after Aysheaia.
(d) The Maturation of a Research Program: Life after Opabinia.

2. What did the dissenter believe should happen to Aysehaia?
(a) It should jump two classes.
(b) It should spread to the lower classes.
(c) It should be retained in a known class.
(d) It should not exist.

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

4. Why did Whittington dissect Opabinia?
(a) To uncover its organs.
(b) To look at its heart.
(c) To uncover its bodily appendages.
(d) To find its liver.

5. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?
(a) Professor Harry Whittington of Cambridge and his colleagues.
(b) Professor Matt Stephens and his wife.
(c) Dr. John Whit and his colleagues.
(d) Dr. Whittington of Yale and her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Whittington first think about Naraoia?

2. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?

3. How does Gould attempt to illustrate his point about evolutionary contingency?

4. What does the second stage of contingency describe?

5. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?

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