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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 is the seventh stage of development about?
(a) Crustaceans.
(b) Homo sapiens.
(c) Dinosaurs.
(d) Sharks.
2. According to Dolf Seilacher, what did early eukaryotes exhibit?
(a) A simplicity that could have led to narrower diversity.
(b) A complexity that could have led to narrower diversity.
(c) A complexity that could have led to more diversity.
(d) A simplicity that could have led to more diversity.
3. What did the dissenter believe should happen to Aysehaia?
(a) It should be retained in a known class.
(b) It should jump two classes.
(c) It should not exist.
(d) It should spread to the lower classes.
4. What is the classification of animal species specifically warned to not be made on alone?
(a) Five or more paleontologists.
(b) Appearance, function and historical context.
(c) The basis of similarities and differences.
(d) Time and timing of the discovery.
5. What complex creature did Morris decide to focus on?
(a) Wiwaxia.
(b) Trixolo.
(c) Phylomari.
(d) Normaia.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Chapter 4 argue that the story of history is about?
2. Why is the Burgess Shale such an amazing find?
3. When did prokaryotic cells exist?
4. What adjective describes how Whittington first felt when working on Naraoia?
5. How did Gould come to understand the Burgess Shale?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Collins do when faced with the prevention of Des Collins excavation of Walcott's quarry?
2. What must the next generation do with the Burgess Shale?
3. How did Naraoia contribute to the Burgess Drama?
4. How can Odaraia be described?
5. Why does Gould deplore the prevention of Des Collins excavation of Walcot's quarry?
6. How did Aysehaia contribute to the Burgess Drama?
7. Why is David Burton's published monograph on Sidneyia an important milestone?
8. What is uniquely special about the discovery of Sanctacaris?
9. How does the book describe Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris as students of Oxford?
10. Why wasn't the discovery of the Burgess Shale and its consequent new shift in perspective a gradual change?
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