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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. Where did Collins find another dig site?
(a) Five miles north of the original quarry.
(b) On the other side of the mountains.
(c) In Alaska.
(d) Five miles south of the original quarry.

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

3. What do we not know about mass extinction?
(a) Why mass extinction no longer exists.
(b) Why mass extinction will never happen again.
(c) Why mass extinction worked as it did.
(d) Why mass extinction is so predictable.

4. What did Marrella and Yohoia still appear to be?
(a) Unknown creatures.
(b) Vertebrates.
(c) Crustaceans.
(d) Arthropods.

5. How can scientists describe the structure of evolutionary inference?
(a) Fairly intuitive.
(b) Fairly easy.
(c) Quite complex.
(d) Quite simple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bruton and Whittington do in 1983 in a monograph?

2. What must evolutionary biologists specify concerning similarities and differences?

3. What do bats superficially resemble?

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

5. Which genus was Whittington focused on classifying in Chapter Three?

(see the answer key)

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