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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. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(b) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress
(c) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.
(d) The dissipation of marine life was progress.

2. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?
(a) Transport the fossils.
(b) Study the fossils.
(c) Organize the fossils.
(d) Recast the fossils.

3. Why did Whittington's next classification pose a problem?
(a) Yohoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.
(b) Whittington loses his classification charts.
(c) His tools malfunction.
(d) Naraoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.

4. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Twenty.

5. What does Gould determine about the difference between eukaryotic fauna and the Burgess fauna?
(a) The difference is minimalist.
(b) The difference is close.
(c) The difference is vast.
(d) The difference is microscopic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Naraoia lead Whittington to do?

2. How was Walcott's taxonomy significantly updated?

3. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?

4. What pushed Whittington beyond the idea he struggled under?

5. What make up periods?

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