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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 are the two Ps?
(a) Promotion and progressive.
(b) Progression and Promise.
(c) Primitive and precursor.
(d) Predilect and prominent.

2. What is the classification of animal species specifically warned to not be made on alone?
(a) The basis of similarities and differences.
(b) Appearance, function and historical context.
(c) Time and timing of the discovery.
(d) Five or more paleontologists.

3. What is Canadaspis?
(a) A crustacean.
(b) A nervous system.
(c) A carapace.
(d) A squid.

4. How can scientists describe the structure of evolutionary inference?
(a) Fairly easy.
(b) Quite simple.
(c) Fairly intuitive.
(d) Quite complex.

5. What adjective describes how Whittington first felt when working on Naraoia?
(a) Worried.
(b) Frustrated.
(c) Excited.
(d) Anxious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dissented with Whittington about Aysehaia?

2. What adjectives describe Whittington?

3. When did many species of hominid exist?

4. What years did Whittington work on Naraoia and Aysheaia?

5. What is the third stage of the fauna?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gould describe the relationship between Oxford advisors and their students?

2. Why did the Burgess Shale drama become a denouement by 1978?

3. How did Aysehaia contribute to the Burgess Drama?

4. Why is David Burton's published monograph on Sidneyia an important milestone?

5. How can Odaraia be described?

6. What does Morris find that is so shocking?

7. What does Gould note about the Burgess work and the Whittington, Briggs and Simon team?

8. What new species does the fourth act concentrate on?

9. What must the next generation do with the Burgess Shale?

10. What does Gould argue about the classification of the Canadaspis?

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