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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act 2. A New View Takes Hold: Homage to Opabinia, 1975.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Whittington dissect Opabinia?
(a) To uncover its bodily appendages.
(b) To find its liver.
(c) To look at its heart.
(d) To uncover its organs.

2. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?
(a) The Precambrian Era.
(b) The Cambrian Era.
(c) The Mesozoic Era.
(d) The Prestige Era.

3. How does Gould begin Chapter 2: "A Background for the Burgess Shale"?
(a) Explaining which animals are in the Burgess Shale.
(b) Explaining the last chapter's conclusion.
(c) Explaining how scientists divide up historical epochs.
(d) Explaining what the Burgess Shale represents.

4. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Physical.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Emotional.

5. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?
(a) Recast the fossils.
(b) Organize the fossils.
(c) Transport the fossils.
(d) Study the fossils.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?

2. What is so strange about Opabinia that paleontologists found it unbelievable?

3. What did Marrella and Yohoia still appear to be?

4. What association does Gould make with progress and evolution?

5. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?

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