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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the classification of animal species specifically warned to not be made on alone?
(a) Appearance, function and historical context.
(b) Five or more paleontologists.
(c) Time and timing of the discovery.
(d) The basis of similarities and differences.

2. What is the third stage of the fauna?
(a) The introduction of the spine.
(b) The introduction of the egg.
(c) The Pre-Cambrian explosion.
(d) The Cambrian explosion.

3. What does the 'grab bag' provided by the Burgess Shale consist of?
(a) Appendages and anatomical forms.
(b) Corpuscles and carapaces.
(c) Cartilage and fossils.
(d) Appendages and tissues.

4. What did Whittington's revisions of the new paradigm become?
(a) A religious paradigm.
(b) A research paradigm.
(c) A cultural paradigm.
(d) A statistical paradigm.

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

6. What kind of category was it?
(a) The classifying category.
(b) The memorable category.
(c) The catch-all category.
(d) The satisfactory category.

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

8. What did Morris publish while still in graduate school?
(a) 7 articles.
(b) 6 monographs.
(c) 4 papers.
(d) 5 papers on new phyla.

9. What does Opabinia need?
(a) A new chordata.
(b) A new phylum.
(c) A new kingdom.
(d) A new species.

10. How can Odaraia be described?
(a) The largest vertebrate in the shale.
(b) The smallest trivalve arthropod in the shale.
(c) The largest trivalve arthropod in the shale.
(d) The largest bivalve arthropod in the shale.

11. What new view did Whittington now understand?
(a) Many Burgess fossils fit within one known taxonomy.
(b) No Burgess fossils fit within any known taxonomy.
(c) Few Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.
(d) Many Burgess fossils cannot be placed in any known taxonomy.

12. Why is the Burgess Shale such an amazing find?
(a) It contains hard-bodied creatures.
(b) It contains five thousand creatures.
(c) It contains no creatures.
(d) It contains soft-bodied creatures.

13. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

14. What did the dissenter believe should happen to Aysehaia?
(a) It should not exist.
(b) It should be retained in a known class.
(c) It should spread to the lower classes.
(d) It should jump two classes.

15. What happened after Whittington published his monograph on Naraoia?
(a) He begins work on Aysheaia.
(b) He is promoted to Chief Curator of the Smithsonian.
(c) He takes a break.
(d) He becomes famous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjectives describe Whittington?

2. What kind of interpretation did Morris want of the Burgess Shale fossils?

3. What do bats superficially resemble?

4. Where did Collins find another dig site?

5. What did Anomalocaris appear to represent?

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