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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 did Naraoia lead Whittington to do?
(a) Dismiss Naraoia as a fluke.
(b) Dismiss the entire class Trilobitoidea as artificial.
(c) Combine two classes to create Trilobitoidea.
(d) Begin a new class called Trilobitoidea.

2. Where did Collins find another dig site?
(a) Five miles south of the original quarry.
(b) Five miles north of the original quarry.
(c) On the other side of the mountains.
(d) In Alaska.

3. What was Whittington the world expert on at the time?
(a) Paleontologists.
(b) Trilobites.
(c) Yohoias.
(d) Fossils.

4. What must evolutionary biologists specify concerning similarities and differences?
(a) Six types.
(b) Types and sub-types.
(c) Invertebrate types.
(d) Vertebrate types.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morris push Whittington to do?

2. What stage of contingency does the book focus on most?

3. What do Oxford advisers not spend much of their time on, according to Gould?

4. What did 1971 through 1978 bring for Whittington?

5. What does Opabinia need?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What new view did Whittington hold after working on Naraoia?

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

4. What other monographs were published in 1981 concerning the Burgess Shale and by who?

5. How did Naraoia contribute to the Burgess Drama?

6. What must the next generation do with the Burgess Shale?

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

8. How can Odaraia be described?

9. What did Whittington originally think Naraoia was?

10. What sort of series does Chapter 4: Walcott's Vision and the Nature of History transition to and why?

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