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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act 4. Completion and Codiication of an Argument: Naraoia and Aysheaia, 1977-1978..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Whittington publish a monograph on Yohoia?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1978.

2. What type of evidence concerning Opabinia is considered to be decisive?
(a) Its classification.
(b) Its distinctiveness.
(c) Its guts.
(d) Its structure.

3. What was Leif Størmer's treatise on the Burgess Shale named?
(a) Treatise on Plant and Fauna life of the Burgess Shale.
(b) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.
(c) Treatise on the Burgess Shale.
(d) Treatise on Vertebrate Paleontology.

4. What example helped round out the Burgess revision?
(a) Marella.
(b) Naraoia.
(c) Aysehaia.
(d) Wiwaxia.

5. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?
(a) Any taxonomic genus.
(b) Any species or phyla.
(c) Any known group of arthropods.
(d) Any known group of vertebrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?

2. How much of all marine life died during the greatest extinction in history?

3. What is the subtitle for this segment of the book?

4. What was Whittington the world expert on at the time?

5. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?

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