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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Possible Worlds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjectives describe Whittington?
(a) Kind, conservative, mild-mannered.
(b) Quiet, mousy, whimsical.
(c) Thankful, gracious, kind.
(d) Mild, warm, liberal.

2. What did Whittington use to dissect the carapace of Opabinia?
(a) New methods.
(b) Old tools.
(c) New tools.
(d) New stringents.

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

4. What is the Burgess Shale composed of?
(a) Amoebas.
(b) Vertebrates.
(c) Invertebrates.
(d) Viruses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of relationship does Gould say Oxford advisers have with their students?

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

3. What did Gould describe as characteristic of arthropods?

4. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?

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

(see the answer key)

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