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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What five new species did Morris find?
(a) Nectocaris, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, Amiskwia, and Hallucigenia.
(b) Hallucigenia, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, Amiskwia, and Malaria.
(c) Fologenia, Maskinal, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, and Hallucigenia.
(d) Hallucigenia, Odontogriphus, Dinomischus, Maskinal, and Frutogenia.

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

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

4. What are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?
(a) Brilliant.
(b) Apathetic.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Nervous.

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

6. What is the classification of animal species specifically warned to not be made on alone?
(a) Appearance, function and historical context.
(b) Time and timing of the discovery.
(c) The basis of similarities and differences.
(d) Five or more paleontologists.

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

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

9. What does Gould say represents the Burgess message?
(a) Scthyoria.
(b) Naraoia.
(c) Yohoia.
(d) Opabinia.

10. How can scientists describe the structure of evolutionary inference?
(a) Fairly easy.
(b) Quite complex.
(c) Fairly intuitive.
(d) Quite simple.

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

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

13. What adjective describes how Whittington first felt when working on Naraoia?
(a) Worried.
(b) Excited.
(c) Frustrated.
(d) Anxious.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Act 4 do?

2. How did Gould come to understand the Burgess Shale?

3. What did Bruton and Whittington do in 1983 in a monograph?

4. Why did Whittington's next classification pose a problem?

5. Where did Collins find another dig site?

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