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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 make up periods?
(a) Eras.
(b) Epochs.
(c) Advents and Periods.
(d) Decades.
2. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?
(a) Jeremy Morris and Derek Briggs.
(b) Briggs Morris and Simon Conway.
(c) Simon Conway Morris and Derek Briggs.
(d) Barry Moser and Simeon Martin.
3. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?
(a) Physical.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Intellectual.
4. What do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?
(a) Kingdom to species.
(b) Phyla to classes.
(c) Phyla to species.
(d) Orders to genera.
5. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?
(a) Conway Morris.
(b) Whittington.
(c) Derek Briggs.
(d) Simeon Martin.
Short Answer Questions
1. What association does Gould make with progress and evolution?
2. How did Whittington approach Yohoia?
3. What part did Whittington dissect of Opabinia?
4. Why did Whittington dissect Opabinia?
5. In what year did Leif Størmer describe the Burgess Shale arthropods in a treatise?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Leif Størmer decide to do in contrast to Walcott?
2. How is the "Cambrian explosion" defined?
3. What did Stephen Jay Gould desire to use the Burgess Shale for?
4. Why is the Burgess Shale acknowledged as the most significant collection of fossils yet discovered?
5. What did using these new methods allow Whittington's team to do?
6. What did Whittington find Opabinia to actually be?
7. What dominant paradigm about the Burgess fossils was Whittington pressured to conform to?
8. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: A Background for the Burgess Shale?
9. How is the Marrella splendens described in relation to the other Burgess Shale fossils?
10. Why could the acceptance of the new interpretation create within humans a psychological shock?
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