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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. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

2. What did 1971 through 1978 bring for Whittington?
(a) Ten more new fossils.
(b) No changes.
(c) Revolutionary changes and a new shift in perspective.
(d) Devastating news that his research was no longer financed.

3. What did Walcott think Opabinia was just another one of?
(a) Crustacean.
(b) Anemone.
(c) Mollusk.
(d) Plant.

4. What is the subtitle for this segment of the book?
(a) Completion and Codiication of an Argument
(b) Timelines and Codification of an Argument
(c) Omission and Codiication of an Argument
(d) Completion and Codification of an Argument

5. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?
(a) Invertebrates.
(b) Amoebas.
(c) Viruses.
(d) Vertebrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two Ps?

2. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?

3. How did Naraoia help the Burgess Drama?

4. How can Odaraia be described?

5. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?

(see the answer key)

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