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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remainder of Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The Canadian Rockies.
(b) England.
(c) Mt. Everest.
(d) The Appalachian Mountains.

2. When did Whittington publish a monograph on Yohoia?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1987.

3. What kind of lessons does Stephen Jay Gould draw from how the Burgess Shale was first interpreted?
(a) Methodological and philosophical lessons.
(b) Medieval and historical lessons.
(c) Conservative and biological lessons.
(d) Religious and traditional lessons.

4. Why did Whittington's next classification pose a problem?
(a) Yohoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.
(b) Whittington loses his classification charts.
(c) His tools malfunction.
(d) Naraoia cannot be classified with an arthropod group.

5. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?
(a) Six months.
(b) Four and a half years.
(c) One year.
(d) Five and a half years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of picture do scientists have of multi-cellular animal life because of the Burgess Shale?

2. What five new species did Morris find?

3. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

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

5. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?

(see the answer key)

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