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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 does Gould focus on to bring the Burgess Shale into clear view?
(a) Whittington's insight.
(b) Opabinia's dissection.
(c) Technical perfection
(d) Des Collin's insight.

2. What did Walcott think Opabinia was just another one of?
(a) Plant.
(b) Crustacean.
(c) Anemone.
(d) Mollusk.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Whittington first think about Naraoia?

2. What adjectives describe Whittington?

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

4. What do we not know about mass extinction?

5. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?

(see the answer key)

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