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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 Bruton and Whittington do in 1983 in a monograph?
(a) Observe Nerella and Emeraldella.
(b) Analyze Emeraldella and Leanchoilia.
(c) Analyze Leanchoilia and Nerella.
(d) Discuss Yohoia and Leanchoilia.

2. What is the second subtitle for the Act 5 chapter?
(a) Doomsday (There Are No Final Answers).
(b) Doomsday (There Are No Final Statements).
(c) Wednesday (There Are No Final Answers).
(d) Doomsday (There Are Final Answers).

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

4. Which are the names of three rare arthropods in the Shale?
(a) Sartrocercus, Asheais, Actaeus.
(b) Acteria, Malaraia, Bulgara.
(c) Molaria, Actaeus, Sartrocercus.
(d) Molaria, Sartrocercus, Asheais.

5. Which class did Whittington's dissenter say Aysehaia should be in?
(a) Amaraphora.
(b) Ekydidophora.
(c) Marinophora.
(d) Onychophora.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gould note about the Burgess work at this time, in Act 5?

2. How was Whittington inclined to see Opabinia?

3. What does the second stage of contingency describe?

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

5. What did Whittington next begin work on?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How can Odaraia be described?

3. What does Gould note about the Burgess work and the Whittington, Briggs and Simon team?

4. Why is David Burton's published monograph on Sidneyia an important milestone?

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

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

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

8. What new species does the fourth act concentrate on?

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

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

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