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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. Why did Whittington's next classification pose a problem?
(a) His tools malfunction.
(b) Yohoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.
(c) Naraoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.
(d) Whittington loses his classification charts.

2. What did Anomalocaris appear to represent?
(a) Another new species.
(b) Another new taxonomy.
(c) Another new phylum.
(d) Another new kingdom.

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

4. What did Whittington restrain Morris from doing?
(a) From underreaching.
(b) From holding on to hard to his lessons.
(c) From spinning out of control.
(d) From overreaching.

5. What prevented Collins from excavating at Walcott's quarry?
(a) Marginal reasons.
(b) Ecological reasons.
(c) Geological reasons.
(d) Philosophical reasons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Act 4 do?

2. What is Canadaspis?

3. How can Odaraia be described?

4. What adjective describes how Whittington first felt when working on Naraoia?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How can Odaraia be described?

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

8. Describe Wiwaxia.

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

10. What did Whittington originally think Naraoia was?

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