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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. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?
(a) Bezoar fossils.
(b) Trilobite fossils.
(c) Trixony fossils.
(d) Pitolimite fossils.

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

3. What compose eras?
(a) Epochs and Ages.
(b) Periods.
(c) Times and Seasons.
(d) Advents and Periods.

4. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?
(a) Derek Briggs.
(b) Simeon Martin.
(c) Whittington.
(d) Conway Morris.

5. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?
(a) The separation of single cell life was mitigated progress.
(b) The evolution of multi-cellular life was not unmitigated progress
(c) The dissipation of marine life was progress.
(d) The evolution of marine life was unmitigated progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Walcott's taxonomy significantly updated?

2. How many new arthropod designs does The Burgess Shale contain?

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

4. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?

5. What is the most common organism among the Burgess Shale fossils?

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