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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. Where did Collins find another dig site?
(a) On the other side of the mountains.
(b) Five miles south of the original quarry.
(c) Five miles north of the original quarry.
(d) In Alaska.

2. Who dissented with Whittington about Aysehaia?
(a) Des Collins.
(b) Gould.
(c) Mary Whittington.
(d) Smiths.

3. What did Naraoia lead Whittington to do?
(a) Dismiss the entire class Trilobitoidea as artificial.
(b) Combine two classes to create Trilobitoidea.
(c) Dismiss Naraoia as a fluke.
(d) Begin a new class called Trilobitoidea.

4. What do bats superficially resemble?
(a) Birds.
(b) Predators.
(c) Albatross.
(d) Mammals.

5. What is the subtitle for this segment of the book?
(a) Timelines and Codification of an Argument
(b) Omission and Codiication of an Argument
(c) Completion and Codification of an Argument
(d) Completion and Codiication of an Argument

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of category was it?

2. What are the two Ps?

3. How many acts does the Burgess Drama have?

4. What did Whittington's revisions of the new paradigm become?

5. When did many species of hominid exist?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Collins do when faced with the prevention of Des Collins excavation of Walcott's quarry?

3. Why does Gould deplore the prevention of Des Collins excavation of Walcot's quarry?

4. How did Naraoia contribute to the Burgess Drama?

5. What two major discoveries did Derek Briggs make?

6. How does the book describe Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris as students of Oxford?

7. Why did classifying Naraoia pose a problem for Whittington?

8. How can Odaraia be described?

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

10. What is uniquely special about the discovery of Sanctacaris?

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