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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 does Leanchoilia have that makes it look bizarre?
(a) A trivalve.
(b) A very large mouth.
(c) Two appendages that split into three whip-like extensions.
(d) Two toothy fins.

2. What did 1971 through 1978 bring for Whittington?
(a) Ten more new fossils.
(b) Devastating news that his research was no longer financed.
(c) No changes.
(d) Revolutionary changes and a new shift in perspective.

3. What does the second stage of contingency describe?
(a) How mammals survived.
(b) The origins of life.
(c) The progression of prokaryotes.
(d) The developmental path of eukaryotic organisms.

4. What are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?
(a) Brilliant.
(b) Apathetic.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Nervous.

5. Which old category did the team focus on to classify Opabinia?
(a) "Worms."
(b) "Mechanisms."
(c) "Beetles."
(d) "Trilobites."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the class of Burgess arthropods?

2. What adjectives describe Morris?

3. Who dissented with Whittington about Aysehaia?

4. What did Whittington's revisions of the new paradigm become?

5. What happened after Whittington published his monograph on Naraoia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is David Burton's published monograph on Sidneyia an important milestone?

2. What does Gould note about the Burgess work and the Whittington, Briggs and Simon team?

3. How did Aysehaia contribute to the Burgess Drama?

4. Why did the Burgess Shale drama become a denouement by 1978?

5. Why did classifying Naraoia pose a problem for Whittington?

6. What two major discoveries did Derek Briggs make?

7. Why does Gould deplore the prevention of Des Collins excavation of Walcot's quarry?

8. What did Leanchoilica look like?

9. How does Gould describe the relationship between Oxford advisors and their students?

10. How does the book describe Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris as students of Oxford?

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