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

2. When did prokaryotic cells exist?
(a) At 3.7 billion years.
(b) At 3.5 billion years.
(c) At 3.5 million years.
(d) At 6.7 billion years.

3. How does Leif Størmer spread the Burgess arthropods among the groups in the arthropod phylum?
(a) Narrowly.
(b) Widely.
(c) Minutely.
(d) Hardly.

4. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?
(a) Barry Moser and Simeon Martin.
(b) Briggs Morris and Simon Conway.
(c) Jeremy Morris and Derek Briggs.
(d) Simon Conway Morris and Derek Briggs.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of picture do scientists have of multi-cellular animal life because of the Burgess Shale?

2. What did Whittington conclude about Yohoia in 1975?

3. Where was Opabinia quoted to belong?

4. What kinds of versions does the story of the Burgess Shale's discovery have?

5. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?

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