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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 the two Ps?
(a) Predilect and prominent.
(b) Progression and Promise.
(c) Primitive and precursor.
(d) Promotion and progressive.

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

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

4. What happened from 1971 through 1978 that changed everything?
(a) Years of scientific debate.
(b) Sporadic leaps in clarity.
(c) Two months of pondering.
(d) Gradually.

5. What does Opabinia need?
(a) A new kingdom.
(b) A new species.
(c) A new chordata.
(d) A new phylum.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many major contingencies along the path toward human development does Gould guide the reader through?

2. What is the third stage of the fauna?

3. What new view did Whittington now understand?

4. How was Whittington inclined to see Opabinia?

5. What did 1971 through 1978 bring for Whittington?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Leanchoilica look like?

7. What did Sanctacaris look like?

8. How did Naraoia contribute to the Burgess Drama?

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

10. What did Collins do when faced with the prevention of Des Collins excavation of Walcott's quarry?

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