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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the seventh stage of development about?
(a) Dinosaurs.
(b) Sharks.
(c) Crustaceans.
(d) Homo sapiens.
2. How did Naraoia help the Burgess Drama?
(a) By helping save it.
(b) By helping summon it.
(c) By helping destroy it.
(d) By helping complete it.
3. What new view did Whittington now understand?
(a) No Burgess fossils fit within any known taxonomy.
(b) Many Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.
(c) Many Burgess fossils fit within one known taxonomy.
(d) Few Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.
4. What did Whittington first think about Naraoia?
(a) It is a unique form of trilobite.
(b) It is the cousin of Yohoia.
(c) It is the grandfather of Marella.
(d) It is the first trilobite.
5. What did Bruton and Whittington do in 1983 in a monograph?
(a) Discuss Yohoia and Leanchoilia.
(b) Observe Nerella and Emeraldella.
(c) Analyze Leanchoilia and Nerella.
(d) Analyze Emeraldella and Leanchoilia.
6. What do bats superficially resemble?
(a) Mammals.
(b) Predators.
(c) Birds.
(d) Albatross.
7. What kind of similarities and differences must scientists attend to?
(a) Deep.
(b) None.
(c) Fair to middling.
(d) Shallow.
8. What years did Whittington work on Naraoia and Aysheaia?
(a) 1980-1981.
(b) 1976-1977.
(c) 1978-1979.
(d) 1977-1978.
9. How many major contingencies along the path toward human development does Gould guide the reader through?
(a) Nine.
(b) Eight.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.
10. 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.
11. According to Dolf Seilacher, what did early eukaryotes exhibit?
(a) A complexity that could have led to more diversity.
(b) A simplicity that could have led to narrower diversity.
(c) A simplicity that could have led to more diversity.
(d) A complexity that could have led to narrower diversity.
12. What does Act 4 do?
(a) Skip to the fifth act.
(b) Keep things conservative.
(c) Slow things down.
(d) Speed things up.
13. What is the first subtitle for the Act 5 chapter?
(a) The Maturation of a Research Program: Life after Opabinia.
(b) The Maturation of a Research Program: Life after Aysheaia.
(c) The Development of a Research Program: Life after Aysheaia.
(d) The Maturation of a Paradigm Program: Life after Aysheaia.
14. What is the subtitle for this segment of the book?
(a) Timelines and Codification of an Argument
(b) Completion and Codification of an Argument
(c) Completion and Codiication of an Argument
(d) Omission and Codiication of an Argument
15. Which team member has Gould largely ignored at this point?
(a) Simon Morris.
(b) Simon Conway.
(c) General Briggs.
(d) Derek Briggs.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which are the names of three rare arthropods in the Shale?
2. What does Opabinia need?
3. What do we not know about mass extinction?
4. What did Morris push Whittington to do?
5. What is Canadaspis?
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