2. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(b) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.
(c) The dissipation of marine life was progress.
(d) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress

3. Where is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The Appalachian Mountains.
(b) Mt. Everest.
(c) England.
(d) The Canadian Rockies.

4. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

5. What did Gould describe as characteristic of arthropods?
(a) Noodly proboscis.
(b) Hard, body shell.
(c) Bodily appendages.
(d) Odd segmented trunk.

6. Why did Whittington dissect Opabinia?
(a) To uncover its bodily appendages.
(b) To look at its heart.
(c) To find its liver.
(d) To uncover its organs.

7. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?
(a) Explaining how scientists divide up historical epochs.
(b) Explaining what the Burgess Shale represents.
(c) Explaining the last chapter's conclusion.
(d) Explaining which animals are in the Burgess Shale.

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

9. What was Yohoia specialized for?
(a) A species.
(b) An environment.
(c) A kingdom.
(d) A habitat.

10. 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.

11. In what year did Leif Størmer describe the Burgess Shale arthropods in a treatise?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1959.

12. How was Walcott's taxonomy significantly updated?
(a) Including new manera and genera.
(b) Including new marrella and phyla.
(c) Including new genera and phyla.
(d) Including new phyla and manera.

13. What did Whittington later note that he labored under?
(a) The two Ds: decimation and destruction.
(b) The two Ps: polyanimate and precursor.
(c) The two Ps: primitive and precursor.
(d) The two Bs: barren and barinal.

14. How did Whittington approach Yohoia?
(a) Very liberally.
(b) More conservatively.
(c) Moderately liberally.
(d) Less conservatively.

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