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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Whittington armed with that helped him review the claim that Opabinia was an arthropod?
(a) New tossils.
(b) Old instructional manuals.
(c) New fossils.
(d) New techniques.

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

3. What was Whittington's 1979 monograph written about?
(a) Dissecting Sanctocrabis.
(b) Cataloging Marella splendens.
(c) Monitoring Wiwaxia.
(d) Cataloging Opabinia.

4. How many specimens of Opabinia are in the Burgess Shale?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Eight.
(d) Ten.

5. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?
(a) Paleozoic Era.
(b) Maleozoic Era.
(c) Mesozoic Era.
(d) Pezozoic Era.

6. 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.

7. What was Leif Størmer's treatise on the Burgess Shale named?
(a) Treatise on the Burgess Shale.
(b) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.
(c) Treatise on Vertebrate Paleontology.
(d) Treatise on Plant and Fauna life of the Burgess Shale.

8. What is so strange about Opabinia that paleontologists found it unbelievable?
(a) The function.
(b) The diagnosis.
(c) The proboscis.
(d) The structure.

9. Who proposes to use the Burgess Shale to illustrate the nature of history?
(a) Stephen Jay Gould.
(b) Mary J. Gold.
(c) Steven Kay Gold.
(d) Marie Janine Gold.

10. What is the most common organism among the Burgess Shale fossils?
(a) Sanctocaris.
(b) Signi marella.
(c) Titilla splendens.
(d) Marrella splendens.

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

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

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

14. What is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The Canadian Rockies.
(b) The smallest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(c) A territory of British Columbia.
(d) The largest collection of fossils ever discovered.

15. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1987.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pushed Whittington beyond the idea he struggled under?

2. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?

3. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?

4. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?

5. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?

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