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

2. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?
(a) Severed.
(b) Fluffy.
(c) Normal.
(d) Unique.

3. The Burgess fauna follow the beginning of what era?
(a) Pezozoic Era.
(b) Maleozoic Era.
(c) Mesozoic Era.
(d) Paleozoic Era.

4. In what year did Leif Størmer describe the Burgess Shale arthropods in a treatise?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1960.

5. According to Gould, what kind of insight does the Burgess Shale offer into the nature of life and the evolution of life forms?
(a) Weird insight.
(b) Distasteful insight.
(c) Unique insight.
(d) Normal insight.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?

2. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?

3. What does Gould determine about the difference between eukaryotic fauna and the Burgess fauna?

4. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?

5. What was Whittington's 1979 monograph written about?

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