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

2. What does Gould represent the original interpretation as?
(a) "The chair and the ladder."
(b) "The cone and the rod."
(c) "The step and the bowl."
(d) "The ladder and the cone."

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

4. Which are the names of three rare arthropods in the Shale?
(a) Molaria, Actaeus, Sartrocercus.
(b) Acteria, Malaraia, Bulgara.
(c) Sartrocercus, Asheais, Actaeus.
(d) Molaria, Sartrocercus, Asheais.

5. When did Whittington begin studying Opabinia?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1975.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which class did Whittington's dissenter say Aysehaia should be in?

2. In what year did Leif Størmer describe the Burgess Shale arthropods in a treatise?

3. What did Whittington first think about Naraoia?

4. How can Odaraia be described?

5. What does the Burgess Shale represent that occurred 570 million years ago?

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