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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. When did Whittington begin studying Opabinia?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1890.
2. What does the evolution of life contain, according to Gould's explanations and illustrations?
(a) "Annihilation and acceptance."
(b) "Reconstruction and growth."
(c) "Agreement and speculation."
(d) "Decimation and diversification."
3. What are Marrella and Yohoia?
(a) Animals from another universe.
(b) Evolutionary dead-ends.
(c) Known animals from Earth.
(d) Evolutionary cousins.
4. How did Whittington approach Yohoia?
(a) Moderately liberally.
(b) Less conservatively.
(c) More conservatively.
(d) Very liberally.
5. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.
(b) The dissipation of marine life was progress.
(c) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(d) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress
Short Answer Questions
1. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?
2. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?
3. What did Whittington use to dissect the carapace of Opabinia?
4. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?
5. What did Walcott do for science by collecting and cataloging tens of thousands of new species?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the first chapter of "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History" about?
2. How is the Precambrian Era defined?
3. What was the difference between Simon Conway Morris and Whittington in the way that they worked?
4. What is Chapter 3: Reconstruction of the Burgess Shale: Toward a New View of Life about?
5. Why did Whittington approach Yohoia less conservatively?
6. What is the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras famous?
7. What is the purpose of Chapter 2: A Background for the Burgess Shale?
8. Why are the Burgess Shale's arthropod designs odd?
9. What did Whittington find Opabinia to actually be?
10. How did Whittington try to uncover the bodily appendages of Opabinia?
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