View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Opabinia's frontal nozzle not?
(a) A proboscis.
(b) Part of its head.
(c) A second mouth.
(d) A carapace.

2. What did Whittington conclude about Yohoia in 1975?
(a) Yohoia is in multiple systems.
(b) Yohoia is an unknown trilobite.
(c) Yohoia does not fit anywhere.
(d) Yohoia is a known arthropod.

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

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

5. What does Gould determine about the difference between eukaryotic fauna and the Burgess fauna?
(a) The difference is vast.
(b) The difference is close.
(c) The difference is microscopic.
(d) The difference is minimalist.

6. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?
(a) Five and a half years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Four and a half years.
(d) One year.

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

8. What kind of lessons does Stephen Jay Gould draw from how the Burgess Shale was first interpreted?
(a) Medieval and historical lessons.
(b) Methodological and philosophical lessons.
(c) Religious and traditional lessons.
(d) Conservative and biological lessons.

9. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?
(a) Widely.
(b) Minutely.
(c) Narrowly.
(d) Hardly.

10. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?
(a) Mollusk types.
(b) Arthropod types.
(c) Regenerative types.
(d) Cilial types.

11. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?
(a) Viruses.
(b) Vertebrates.
(c) Invertebrates.
(d) Amoebas.

12. According to Gould, what kind of insight does the Burgess Shale offer into the nature of life and the evolution of life forms?
(a) Weird insight.
(b) Unique insight.
(c) Distasteful insight.
(d) Normal insight.

13. What association does Gould make with progress and evolution?
(a) Evolution is progress.
(b) Evolution doesn't always involve progress.
(c) Evolution is scattered progress.
(d) Evolution always involves progress.

14. When did Whittington publish a monograph on Yohoia?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1974.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most common organism among the Burgess Shale fossils?

2. What was Yohoia specialized for?

3. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?

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

5. How did the Burgess Shale's mysteries become apparent?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 400 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample