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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 Gould say the next generation must do with the Burgess Shale?
(a) Work on it with old techniques and forms of analysis.
(b) Work on it with new techniques and forms of paradigms.
(c) Fix it with revised techniques and forms of analysis.
(d) Work on it with new techniques and forms of analysis.

2. 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 spread to the lower classes.
(d) It should not exist.

3. What kind of similarities and differences must scientists attend to?
(a) Deep.
(b) None.
(c) Shallow.
(d) Fair to middling.

4. How did Gould come to understand the Burgess Shale?
(a) A "Cambrian Generality."
(b) A "Mesozoic Mishap."
(c) A "Palentologic Fortune."
(d) A "Pre-Cambrian Finality."

5. What is the problem with the Burgess Shale in relation to many of the similarities and distinctions?
(a) Few are unknown and there are so many different classifications.
(b) The classification system needs a complete overview.
(c) Only two are known and there are no classifications to put them in.
(d) Many are unknown and this makes classification difficult.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Whittington next begin work on?

2. Which team member has Gould largely ignored at this point?

3. What is the seventh stage of development about?

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

5. What is the first subtitle for the Act 5 chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Whittington inclined to see Opabinia during his initial observations?

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

3. What two major discoveries did Derek Briggs make?

4. What did Whittington originally think Naraoia was?

5. What does Morris find that is so shocking?

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

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

8. What new view did Whittington hold after working on Naraoia?

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

10. What sort of series does Chapter 4: Walcott's Vision and the Nature of History transition to and why?

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