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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the class of Burgess arthropods?
(a) Merostomoids.
(b) Istoperoids.
(c) Cansteromoids.
(d) Momomoids.

3. How many acts does the Burgess Drama have?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

4. What kind of interpretation did Morris want of the Burgess Shale fossils?
(a) Grand.
(b) Lenient.
(c) Morose.
(d) Radical.

5. What did the dissenter believe should happen to Aysehaia?
(a) It should spread to the lower classes.
(b) It should be retained in a known class.
(c) It should jump two classes.
(d) It should not exist.

6. Which team member has Gould largely ignored at this point?
(a) Simon Conway.
(b) General Briggs.
(c) Simon Morris.
(d) Derek Briggs.

7. What did Whittington first think about Naraoia?
(a) It is a unique form of trilobite.
(b) It is the grandfather of Marella.
(c) It is the cousin of Yohoia.
(d) It is the first trilobite.

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

9. How does Gould say diversity could possibly have expanded?
(a) Evenly or even logarithmically.
(b) Narrowly.
(c) Exponentially less.
(d) Geometrically.

10. What kind of similarities and differences must scientists attend to?
(a) None.
(b) Deep.
(c) Fair to middling.
(d) Shallow.

11. What are the two Ps?
(a) Progression and Promise.
(b) Primitive and precursor.
(c) Promotion and progressive.
(d) Predilect and prominent.

12. What do we not know about mass extinction?
(a) Why mass extinction will never happen again.
(b) Why mass extinction is so predictable.
(c) Why mass extinction worked as it did.
(d) Why mass extinction no longer exists.

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

14. What adjectives describe Whittington?
(a) Thankful, gracious, kind.
(b) Mild, warm, liberal.
(c) Kind, conservative, mild-mannered.
(d) Quiet, mousy, whimsical.

15. What did Whittington's revisions of the new paradigm become?
(a) A statistical paradigm.
(b) A research paradigm.
(c) A cultural paradigm.
(d) A religious paradigm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Anomalocaris appear to represent?

2. According to Dolf Seilacher, what did early eukaryotes exhibit?

3. What did Whittington restrain Morris from doing?

4. What five new species did Morris find?

5. What happened after Whittington published his monograph on Naraoia?

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