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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remainder of Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many acts does the Burgess Drama have?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Seven.
(d) One.

2. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?
(a) Classify the specimen in taxonomy.
(b) Naturalize the environment and take samples.
(c) Write a monograph on observation alone.
(d) Categorize each file according to specimen.

3. What kind of interpretation did Morris want of the Burgess Shale fossils?
(a) Morose.
(b) Lenient.
(c) Grand.
(d) Radical.

4. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?
(a) Ninety-eight.
(b) Three.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Four.

5. How can scientists describe the structure of evolutionary inference?
(a) Quite simple.
(b) Quite complex.
(c) Fairly easy.
(d) Fairly intuitive.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?

2. How was Whittington inclined to see Opabinia?

3. What is the problem with the Burgess Shale in relation to many of the similarities and distinctions?

4. How did the Burgess Shale's mysteries become apparent?

5. What was Whittington's first monograph about?

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