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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subtitle for this segment of the book?
(a) Completion and Codification of an Argument
(b) Completion and Codiication of an Argument
(c) Timelines and Codification of an Argument
(d) Omission and Codiication of an Argument

2. What did Anomalocaris appear to represent?
(a) Another new kingdom.
(b) Another new taxonomy.
(c) Another new species.
(d) Another new phylum.

3. What did Gould say the next generation must do with the Burgess Shale?
(a) Work on it with new techniques and forms of analysis.
(b) Work on it with new techniques and forms of paradigms.
(c) Work on it with old techniques and forms of analysis.
(d) Fix it with revised techniques and forms of analysis.

4. What years did Whittington work on Naraoia and Aysheaia?
(a) 1980-1981.
(b) 1978-1979.
(c) 1977-1978.
(d) 1976-1977.

5. What does Leanchoilia have that makes it look bizarre?
(a) A trivalve.
(b) Two toothy fins.
(c) A very large mouth.
(d) Two appendages that split into three whip-like extensions.

6. What happened from 1971 through 1978 that changed everything?
(a) Two months of pondering.
(b) Gradually.
(c) Years of scientific debate.
(d) Sporadic leaps in clarity.

7. What did 1971 through 1978 bring for Whittington?
(a) Devastating news that his research was no longer financed.
(b) No changes.
(c) Ten more new fossils.
(d) Revolutionary changes and a new shift in perspective.

8. How did Naraoia help the Burgess Drama?
(a) By helping summon it.
(b) By helping save it.
(c) By helping complete it.
(d) By helping destroy it.

9. Why is the Burgess Shale such an amazing find?
(a) It contains soft-bodied creatures.
(b) It contains no creatures.
(c) It contains hard-bodied creatures.
(d) It contains five thousand creatures.

10. What is the name of the small ribbon-shaped creation that is the first member known of the 'chordate' phylum?
(a) Oakaia.
(b) Mikaia.
(c) Pikaia.
(d) Nikaia.

11. What must evolutionary biologists specify concerning similarities and differences?
(a) Types and sub-types.
(b) Vertebrate types.
(c) Invertebrate types.
(d) Six types.

12. What does Act 4 do?
(a) Skip to the fifth act.
(b) Speed things up.
(c) Slow things down.
(d) Keep things conservative.

13. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?
(a) Six.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

14. What did Gould note about the Burgess work at this time, in Act 5?
(a) Whittington, Briggs and Simon have begun to work on other topics.
(b) Whittington and Simon have begun to work on other topics.
(c) Whittington has left the work to Simon and Briggs.
(d) Briggs has left the Burgess team.

15. What was Whittington the world expert on at the time?
(a) Fossils.
(b) Trilobites.
(c) Paleontologists.
(d) Yohoias.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Act 3 explain?

2. What kind of category was it?

3. Which class did Whittington's dissenter say Aysehaia should be in?

4. How many major contingencies along the path toward human development does Gould guide the reader through?

5. What are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?

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