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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act I. Marrella and Yohoia: The Dawning and Consolidation of Suspicion, 1971-1974.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Leif Størmer spread the Burgess arthropods among the groups in the arthropod phylum?
(a) Hardly.
(b) Minutely.
(c) Narrowly.
(d) Widely.

2. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?
(a) Hardly.
(b) Minutely.
(c) Narrowly.
(d) Widely.

3. What kinds of versions does the story of the Burgess Shale's discovery have?
(a) A newer, less accurate version and an older, more accurate version.
(b) Two of more or less the same version.
(c) An old, less accurate version and a newer, more accurate version.
(d) A old, more accurate version and a newer, less accurate version.

4. What did Marella have that no trilobite shared?
(a) Two backs.
(b) Appendages.
(c) Large incisors.
(d) Twenty ligaments.

5. What kind of lessons does Stephen Jay Gould draw from how the Burgess Shale was first interpreted?
(a) Religious and traditional lessons.
(b) Methodological and philosophical lessons.
(c) Conservative and biological lessons.
(d) Medieval and historical lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Whittington approach Yohoia?

2. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?

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

4. What compose eras?

5. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?

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