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

2. What large crab with an enormous number of spines did Collins publish a monograph on in 1985?
(a) Phylocaticis.
(b) Sanctacaris.
(c) Eskesis.
(d) Malactaris.

3. What do bats superficially resemble?
(a) Predators.
(b) Albatross.
(c) Birds.
(d) Mammals.

4. How many acts does the Burgess Drama have?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Seven.

5. What kind of picture do scientists have of multi-cellular animal life because of the Burgess Shale?
(a) Distinct.
(b) None.
(c) General.
(d) Imagined.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the classification of animal species specifically warned to not be made on alone?

2. What are the two Ps?

3. What was Whittington the world expert on at the time?

4. What is the seventh stage of development about?

5. Why did Whittington's next classification pose a problem?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why wasn't the discovery of the Burgess Shale and its consequent new shift in perspective a gradual change?

2. What did Collins do when faced with the prevention of Des Collins excavation of Walcott's quarry?

3. How did Aysehaia contribute to the Burgess Drama?

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

5. How can Odaraia be described?

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

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

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

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

10. What did Sanctacaris look like?

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