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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the third stage of the fauna?
(a) The introduction of the egg.
(b) The Pre-Cambrian explosion.
(c) The Cambrian explosion.
(d) The introduction of the spine.

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

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

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

6. What does the 'grab bag' provided by the Burgess Shale consist of?
(a) Corpuscles and carapaces.
(b) Appendages and tissues.
(c) Appendages and anatomical forms.
(d) Cartilage and fossils.

7. What does Opabinia need?
(a) A new chordata.
(b) A new species.
(c) A new phylum.
(d) A new kingdom.

8. Which class did Whittington's dissenter say Aysehaia should be in?
(a) Ekydidophora.
(b) Marinophora.
(c) Amaraphora.
(d) Onychophora.

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

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

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

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

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

14. What new view did Whittington now understand?
(a) Many Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.
(b) Few Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.
(c) Many Burgess fossils fit within one known taxonomy.
(d) No Burgess fossils fit within any known taxonomy.

15. What did Naraoia lead Whittington to do?
(a) Combine two classes to create Trilobitoidea.
(b) Begin a new class called Trilobitoidea.
(c) Dismiss Naraoia as a fluke.
(d) Dismiss the entire class Trilobitoidea as artificial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of picture do scientists have of multi-cellular animal life because of the Burgess Shale?

2. Who dissented with Whittington about Aysehaia?

3. Where did Collins find another dig site?

4. When did prokaryotic cells exist?

5. What adjectives describe Whittington?

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