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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lucy to Lulu to Rose.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Galen discover?
(a) Ligaments pull muscles in the same direction for pulling and in opposite directions for pushing
(b) Pairs of muscles are required to pull against each other for action.
(c) Pairs of muscles must pull in the same direction for action.
(d) Muscles cannot pull without ligaments acting in opposition.

2. What often dictates which hand is dominate?
(a) The baby deciding to use one or the other more often.
(b) The larger of the two hands tends to be dominent.
(c) The smaller of the two hands tends to be dominent.
(d) Social pressures.

3. To what do marionettes exhibit similarities?
(a) Block and tackles.
(b) Leverage.
(c) The way a wedge works.
(d) The human muscle and tendon configuration in arms and legs.

4. What does Duchenne figure out how to demonstrate?
(a) The way an electrical charge stops movement.
(b) The way a muscle contracts in order to push.
(c) The physiology of movement.
(d) The way a muscle expands in order to pull.

5. What does Galvani discover about electrical forces?
(a) They are shorted out by a muscle's contractions.
(b) They are charged either negative or positive.
(c) They are emitted by a muscle's contractions.
(d) The are initiators of action.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Yves Guiard propose both hands perform?

2. What is a "laterality quotient"?

3. What does Rene Decartes think fluid in the eye does?

4. How many years ago did changes in global climate initiate an ecosystem of fruits and flowers?

5. What does the beginning of this chapter say the hand been used throughout its long history?

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