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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 specimens of Opabinia are in the Burgess Shale?
(a) Four.
(b) Eight.
(c) Six.
(d) Ten.

2. How does the Burgess Shale represent contingency?
(a) The explosive qualities of life.
(b) The barren wasteland of evolution.
(c) The diversity of destructive tools.
(d) The great disparity of the Cambrian Explosion.

3. What is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The largest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(b) The Canadian Rockies.
(c) A territory of British Columbia.
(d) The smallest collection of fossils ever discovered.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Marrella and Yohoia still appear to be?

2. What compose eras?

3. What happened after Whittington published his monograph on Naraoia?

4. When did Whittington begin studying Opabinia?

5. What are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?

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