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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act 5. The Maturation of a Research Program: Life after Aysheaia, 1979 - Doomsday (There Are No Final Answers).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?
(a) Classify them into an already existing taxonomy.
(b) Reproduce them.
(c) Dissect them for a museum show.
(d) Cyrogenically preserve them.

2. What adjectives describe Morris?
(a) Gracious, young, compassionate.
(b) Antisocial, benevolent, gracious.
(c) Radical, immature.
(d) Young, radical, antisocial.

3. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?
(a) Narrowly.
(b) Hardly.
(c) Minutely.
(d) Widely.

4. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?
(a) Theopathsis.
(b) Historical Limitation.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Progressive Development.

5. What did Gould say the next generation must do with the Burgess Shale?
(a) Work on it with old techniques and forms of analysis.
(b) Work on it with new techniques and forms of analysis.
(c) Work on it with new techniques and forms of paradigms.
(d) Fix it with revised techniques and forms of analysis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of drama does Gould wish to recount that led to rejecting Walcott's interpretation?

3. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?

4. What does Leanchoilia have that makes it look bizarre?

5. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?

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