Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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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 part did Whittington dissect of Opabinia?
(a) The carapace.
(b) The head.
(c) The arms.
(d) The legs.

2. What did Morris push Whittington to do?
(a) To wonder more and do less.
(b) To do more and wonder less.
(c) To be more radical.
(d) To be less radical.

3. When was the famed "death of the dinosaurs?"
(a) 65 million years ago.
(b) 10 million years ago.
(c) 20 million years ago.
(d) 100 thousand million years ago.

4. What is Canadaspis?
(a) A squid.
(b) A crustacean.
(c) A carapace.
(d) A nervous system.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Morris publish while still in graduate school?

3. When did Whittington publish a monograph on Yohoia?

4. What kind of picture do scientists have of multi-cellular animal life because of the Burgess Shale?

5. What did 1971 through 1978 bring for Whittington?

(see the answer key)

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