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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bizarre features does Opabinia possess?
(a) No nose and three eyes.
(b) Eight noses and four eyes.
(c) Twenty limbs.
(d) Frontal nozzle and five eyes.

2. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?
(a) Progressive Development.
(b) Theopathsis.
(c) Historical Limitation.
(d) Evolution.

3. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?
(a) Charles Walmont.
(b) Charlie VanGuarden.
(c) Charles Doolittle Walcott.
(d) Dr. Doolittle.

4. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?
(a) Psychological cost.
(b) Physical cost.
(c) Compensatory cost.
(d) Monetary cost.

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

6. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?
(a) The Cambrian Era.
(b) The Mesozoic Era.
(c) The Prestige Era.
(d) The Precambrian Era.

7. What does the Precambrian Era contain?
(a) Geological, non-biological time and the advent of single-celled life.
(b) Rational, linear logic and the advent of single-celled life.
(c) Spatial, non-biological time and the decimation of single-celled life.
(d) Physical, non-linear time and the advent of multi-cellular life.

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

9. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?
(a) Fluffy.
(b) Unique.
(c) Normal.
(d) Severed.

10. In what fashion was the Burgess Shale actually discovered?
(a) A reasonable fashion.
(b) A respectable fashion.
(c) A more mundane fashion.
(d) A sympathetic fashion.

11. What did Whittington do after assigning his students to work on some of the other genera?
(a) Finishes his monograph on Wiwaxia.
(b) Begins work on Yohoia.
(c) Ends work on Yohoia.
(d) Begins his monograph on Opabinia.

12. What are Marrella and Yohoia?
(a) Evolutionary dead-ends.
(b) Known animals from Earth.
(c) Evolutionary cousins.
(d) Animals from another universe.

13. Which genus was Whittington focused on classifying in Chapter Three?
(a) Hartoll.
(b) Splendens.
(c) Minillera.
(d) Marrella.

14. What compose eras?
(a) Times and Seasons.
(b) Epochs and Ages.
(c) Advents and Periods.
(d) Periods.

15. What are the evidences for Opabinia that are considered undeniable?
(a) The shape of its gut and the segments of its trunk.
(b) The segments of its gut and the shape of its trunk.
(c) The shape of its carapace and the segments of its trunk.
(d) The shape of its trunk and the segments of its gut.

Short Answer Questions

1. What make up periods?

2. What is so strange about Opabinia that paleontologists found it unbelievable?

3. What was Whittington's first monograph about?

4. Who proposes to use the Burgess Shale to illustrate the nature of history?

5. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?

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