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

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

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

4. How was Whittington inclined to see Opabinia?
(a) As a lunatic.
(b) As insane.
(c) As crazy.
(d) As an oddball.

5. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Naraoia help the Burgess Drama?

2. What is the third stage of the fauna?

3. What did Gould say the next generation must do with the Burgess Shale?

4. What is the name of the class of Burgess arthropods?

5. How did Gould come to understand the Burgess Shale?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Aysehaia contribute to the Burgess Drama?

2. Describe Wiwaxia.

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

4. How did Naraoia contribute to the Burgess Drama?

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

6. What did Sanctacaris look like?

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

8. What two major discoveries did Derek Briggs make?

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

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

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