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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Walcott's Vision and the Nature of History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Whittington armed with that helped him review the claim that Opabinia was an arthropod?
(a) New techniques.
(b) Old instructional manuals.
(c) New tossils.
(d) New fossils.

2. What did Walcott think Opabinia was just another one of?
(a) Anemone.
(b) Mollusk.
(c) Plant.
(d) Crustacean.

3. Which old category did the team focus on to classify Opabinia?
(a) "Worms."
(b) "Beetles."
(c) "Mechanisms."
(d) "Trilobites."

4. What was once often a focus of the fauna?
(a) Marella.
(b) Sidneyia.
(c) Yohoia.
(d) Amarella.

5. What did the dissenter believe should happen to Aysehaia?
(a) It should not exist.
(b) It should jump two classes.
(c) It should spread to the lower classes.
(d) It should be retained in a known class.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Leif Størmer describe the Burgess Shale arthropods in a treatise?

2. How did Gould come to understand the Burgess Shale?

3. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?

4. What did Naraoia lead Whittington to do?

5. What did Gould say the next generation must do with the Burgess Shale?

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