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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the small ribbon-shaped creation that is the first member known of the 'chordate' phylum?
(a) Nikaia.
(b) Mikaia.
(c) Oakaia.
(d) Pikaia.

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

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

5. How can Odaraia be described?
(a) The largest trivalve arthropod in the shale.
(b) The largest vertebrate in the shale.
(c) The largest bivalve arthropod in the shale.
(d) The smallest trivalve arthropod in the shale.

6. How was Whittington inclined to see Opabinia?
(a) As a lunatic.
(b) As an oddball.
(c) As insane.
(d) As crazy.

7. Which are the names of three rare arthropods in the Shale?
(a) Molaria, Actaeus, Sartrocercus.
(b) Acteria, Malaraia, Bulgara.
(c) Sartrocercus, Asheais, Actaeus.
(d) Molaria, Sartrocercus, Asheais.

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

9. Which old category did the team focus on to classify Opabinia?
(a) "Mechanisms."
(b) "Beetles."
(c) "Trilobites."
(d) "Worms."

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

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

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

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

14. What is the second subtitle for the Act 5 chapter?
(a) Doomsday (There Are No Final Answers).
(b) Doomsday (There Are Final Answers).
(c) Wednesday (There Are No Final Answers).
(d) Doomsday (There Are No Final Statements).

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjectives describe Whittington?

2. What is the problem with the Burgess Shale in relation to many of the similarities and distinctions?

3. What are the two Ps?

4. Which team member has Gould largely ignored at this point?

5. What do Oxford advisers not spend much of their time on, according to Gould?

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