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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Whittington armed with that helped him review the claim that Opabinia was an arthropod?
(a) New techniques.
(b) New tossils.
(c) New fossils.
(d) Old instructional manuals.

2. What did Whittington later note that he labored under?
(a) The two Ps: primitive and precursor.
(b) The two Bs: barren and barinal.
(c) The two Ps: polyanimate and precursor.
(d) The two Ds: decimation and destruction.

3. Where was Opabinia quoted to belong?
(a) Among the crustaceans.
(b) Nowhere among the known animals.
(c) In the third genus.
(d) With the arthropods.

4. What pushed Whittington beyond the idea he struggled under?
(a) Opabinia.
(b) Yohoia.
(c) Marella.
(d) Wiwaxia.

5. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?
(a) Whittington.
(b) Conway Morris.
(c) Derek Briggs.
(d) Simeon Martin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?

2. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?

3. How did Whittington approach Yohoia?

4. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?

5. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first chapter of "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History" about?

2. Why is the Burgess Shale acknowledged as the most significant collection of fossils yet discovered?

3. How is the Precambrian Era defined?

4. What is the definition of decimation in the relation to the evolution of life?

5. Why could the acceptance of the new interpretation create within humans a psychological shock?

6. What are Marrella and Yohoia in terms of evolution?

7. What sorts of new procedures did Whittington's team use?

8. What did Stephen Jay Gould desire to use the Burgess Shale for?

9. What is the purpose of Chapter 2: A Background for the Burgess Shale?

10. How is the "Cambrian explosion" defined?

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