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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) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

2. What must evolutionary biologists specify concerning similarities and differences?
(a) Types and sub-types.
(b) Six types.
(c) Vertebrate types.
(d) Invertebrate types.

3. What is so strange about Opabinia that paleontologists found it unbelievable?
(a) The diagnosis.
(b) The structure.
(c) The function.
(d) The proboscis.

4. In what year did Leif Størmer describe the Burgess Shale arthropods in a treatise?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1987.

5. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?
(a) The development of rodents.
(b) The development of large tortoises and sharks.
(c) The development of large mammals like humans.
(d) The development of smaller mammals.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Whittington publish a monograph on Yohoia?

2. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?

3. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?

4. What was Leif Størmer's treatise on the Burgess Shale named?

5. What did Morris publish while still in graduate school?

(see the answer key)

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