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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 did Anomalocaris appear to represent?
(a) Another new kingdom.
(b) Another new phylum.
(c) Another new taxonomy.
(d) Another new species.

2. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?
(a) The development of smaller mammals.
(b) The development of large tortoises and sharks.
(c) The development of rodents.
(d) The development of large mammals like humans.

3. What example helped round out the Burgess revision?
(a) Naraoia.
(b) Wiwaxia.
(c) Marella.
(d) Aysehaia.

4. How did Gould come to understand the Burgess Shale?
(a) A "Palentologic Fortune."
(b) A "Cambrian Generality."
(c) A "Mesozoic Mishap."
(d) A "Pre-Cambrian Finality."

5. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Physical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bizarre features does Opabinia possess?

2. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?

3. Why did Whittington's next classification pose a problem?

4. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?

5. What did the dissenter believe should happen to Aysehaia?

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