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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 adjectives describe Whittington?
(a) Kind, conservative, mild-mannered.
(b) Thankful, gracious, kind.
(c) Mild, warm, liberal.
(d) Quiet, mousy, whimsical.

2. What does the second stage of contingency describe?
(a) The origins of life.
(b) The progression of prokaryotes.
(c) How mammals survived.
(d) The developmental path of eukaryotic organisms.

3. What kind of interpretation did Morris want of the Burgess Shale fossils?
(a) Morose.
(b) Grand.
(c) Radical.
(d) Lenient.

4. What did Morris publish while still in graduate school?
(a) 4 papers.
(b) 5 papers on new phyla.
(c) 7 articles.
(d) 6 monographs.

5. Why is the Burgess Shale such an amazing find?
(a) It contains five thousand creatures.
(b) It contains hard-bodied creatures.
(c) It contains no creatures.
(d) It contains soft-bodied creatures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third stage of the fauna?

2. What adjectives describe Morris?

3. What is the name of the small ribbon-shaped creation that is the first member known of the 'chordate' phylum?

4. Who dissented with Whittington about Aysehaia?

5. What do we not know about mass extinction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What other monographs were published in 1981 concerning the Burgess Shale and by who?

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

3. What did Leanchoilica look like?

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

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

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

7. Why wasn't the discovery of the Burgess Shale and its consequent new shift in perspective a gradual change?

8. How did Naraoia contribute to the Burgess Drama?

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

10. What two major discoveries did Derek Briggs make?

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