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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 are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Brilliant.
(d) Apathetic.

2. What did Morris push Whittington to do?
(a) To be more radical.
(b) To wonder more and do less.
(c) To do more and wonder less.
(d) To be less radical.

3. What does Gould's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?
(a) It has five orders.
(b) It has a single order.
(c) It has two orders.
(d) It has no single order.

4. What is the name of the class of Burgess arthropods?
(a) Merostomoids.
(b) Momomoids.
(c) Istoperoids.
(d) Cansteromoids.

5. What was Whittington's first monograph about?
(a) Splendens.
(b) Marrella.
(c) Opabinia.
(d) Goroia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the first subtitle for the Act 5 chapter?

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

4. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?

5. Which old category did the team focus on to classify Opabinia?

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