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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 are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Apathetic.
(c) Brilliant.
(d) Anxious.
2. What kind of category was it?
(a) The satisfactory category.
(b) The classifying category.
(c) The memorable category.
(d) The catch-all category.
3. What prevented Collins from excavating at Walcott's quarry?
(a) Marginal reasons.
(b) Geological reasons.
(c) Ecological reasons.
(d) Philosophical reasons.
4. What did Whittington's revisions of the new paradigm become?
(a) A cultural paradigm.
(b) A research paradigm.
(c) A religious paradigm.
(d) A statistical paradigm.
5. What is the subtitle for this segment of the book?
(a) Completion and Codiication of an Argument
(b) Timelines and Codification of an Argument
(c) Completion and Codification of an Argument
(d) Omission and Codiication of an Argument
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Naraoia help the Burgess Drama?
2. What large crab with an enormous number of spines did Collins publish a monograph on in 1985?
3. What type of relationship does Gould say Oxford advisers have with their students?
4. What type of example is Aysehaia?
5. Which team member has Gould largely ignored at this point?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Leanchoilica look like?
2. Why did the Burgess Shale drama become a denouement by 1978?
3. Describe Wiwaxia.
4. What did Sanctacaris look like?
5. What new view did Whittington hold after working on Naraoia?
6. Why does Gould deplore the prevention of Des Collins excavation of Walcot's quarry?
7. How does Gould describe the relationship between Oxford advisors and their students?
8. What other monographs were published in 1981 concerning the Burgess Shale and by who?
9. What must the next generation do with the Burgess Shale?
10. Why wasn't the discovery of the Burgess Shale and its consequent new shift in perspective a gradual change?
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