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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Whittington restrain Morris from doing?
(a) From holding on to hard to his lessons.
(b) From overreaching.
(c) From underreaching.
(d) From spinning out of control.

2. What did Morris publish while still in graduate school?
(a) 7 articles.
(b) 6 monographs.
(c) 5 papers on new phyla.
(d) 4 papers.

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

4. What do bats superficially resemble?
(a) Albatross.
(b) Mammals.
(c) Predators.
(d) Birds.

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

6. What did Act 3 explain?
(a) Opabinia is an arthropod.
(b) Idotixis is an arthropod.
(c) Idotixis is not an arthropod.
(d) Opabinia is not an arthropod.

7. What did Morris push Whittington to do?
(a) To be less radical.
(b) To do more and wonder less.
(c) To be more radical.
(d) To wonder more and do less.

8. How many major contingencies along the path toward human development does Gould guide the reader through?
(a) Four.
(b) Nine.
(c) Seven.
(d) Eight.

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

10. How did Gould come to understand the Burgess Shale?
(a) A "Palentologic Fortune."
(b) A "Mesozoic Mishap."
(c) A "Pre-Cambrian Finality."
(d) A "Cambrian Generality."

11. What large crab with an enormous number of spines did Collins publish a monograph on in 1985?
(a) Eskesis.
(b) Sanctacaris.
(c) Malactaris.
(d) Phylocaticis.

12. When did many species of hominid exist?
(a) A million years ago.
(b) Five billion years ago.
(c) Hundreds of thousands of years ago.
(d) Two thousand years ago.

13. What was once often a focus of the fauna?
(a) Sidneyia.
(b) Yohoia.
(c) Marella.
(d) Amarella.

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

15. What is the problem with the Burgess Shale in relation to many of the similarities and distinctions?
(a) The classification system needs a complete overview.
(b) Few are unknown and there are so many different classifications.
(c) Many are unknown and this makes classification difficult.
(d) Only two are known and there are no classifications to put them in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the seventh stage of development about?

2. What is Canadaspis?

3. What are the two Ps?

4. How was Whittington inclined to see Opabinia?

5. What stage of contingency does the book focus on most?

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