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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most common organism among the Burgess Shale fossils?
(a) Sanctocaris.
(b) Titilla splendens.
(c) Marrella splendens.
(d) Signi marella.

2. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?
(a) A controversial conservative paradigm.
(b) A new research paradigm.
(c) A provoking platonic paradigm.
(d) A leftover historical paradigm.

3. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?
(a) Trixony fossils.
(b) Pitolimite fossils.
(c) Bezoar fossils.
(d) Trilobite fossils.

4. What did Whittington conclude about Yohoia in 1975?
(a) Yohoia is in multiple systems.
(b) Yohoia is a known arthropod.
(c) Yohoia does not fit anywhere.
(d) Yohoia is an unknown trilobite.

5. What did Gould describe as characteristic of arthropods?
(a) Hard, body shell.
(b) Odd segmented trunk.
(c) Noodly proboscis.
(d) Bodily appendages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

2. Who newly interpreted the Burgess animals in 1971?

3. What is the Burgess Shale?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What sorts of new procedures did Whittington's team use?

2. Name four levels of the taxonomy of life.

3. How is the "Cambrian explosion" defined?

4. What did Leif Størmer's "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology" describe?

5. What is Chapter 3: Reconstruction of the Burgess Shale: Toward a New View of Life about?

6. What was the difference between Simon Conway Morris and Whittington in the way that they worked?

7. What did Whittington find Opabinia to actually be?

8. How did Walcott's taxonomy have to be significantly updated?

9. What is the purpose of Chapter 2: A Background for the Burgess Shale?

10. What is the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras famous?

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