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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 is the most common organism among the Burgess Shale fossils?
(a) Titilla splendens.
(b) Signi marella.
(c) Sanctocaris.
(d) Marrella splendens.

2. What make up periods?
(a) Decades.
(b) Advents and Periods.
(c) Eras.
(d) Epochs.

3. What type of example is Aysehaia?
(a) A omnipresent example.
(b) A lesser example.
(c) A further example.
(d) A godsend example.

4. What did Whittington do after assigning his students to work on some of the other genera?
(a) Finishes his monograph on Wiwaxia.
(b) Ends work on Yohoia.
(c) Begins work on Yohoia.
(d) Begins his monograph on Opabinia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Opabinia quoted to belong?

2. What must evolutionary biologists specify concerning similarities and differences?

3. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?

4. How was Walcott's taxonomy significantly updated?

5. What bizarre features does Opabinia possess?

(see the answer key)

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