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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 could Whittington not classify Marella with?
(a) Any species or phyla.
(b) Any known group of vertebrates.
(c) Any taxonomic genus.
(d) Any known group of arthropods.

2. What adjective describes how Whittington first felt when working on Naraoia?
(a) Frustrated.
(b) Worried.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Excited.

3. What did Morris publish while still in graduate school?
(a) 6 monographs.
(b) 5 papers on new phyla.
(c) 4 papers.
(d) 7 articles.

4. When did Whittington begin studying Opabinia?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1890.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Whittington dissect Opabinia?

2. What is the first major contingency?

3. What adjectives describe Whittington?

4. How many levels are there in the taxonomy of life?

5. What are Marrella and Yohoia?

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