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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hand, Eye and Sky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rene Decartes think fluid in the eye does?
(a) Causes action.
(b) Causes cataracts.
(c) Damages the optic nerve.
(d) Keeps the iris the correct color.

2. What is the juggling riddle?
(a) How many balls it takes a juggler to feel accomplished.
(b) How a juggler can hold two balls in each hand and juggle two.
(c) Asking riddles while you juggler to demonstrate your expertise.
(d) How three balls can be in motion yet one held in the hand at the same time.

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

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

5. How does a goat eat a piece of candy?
(a) Sometimes just the wrapper and sometimes just the candy.
(b) Just the candy.
(c) The wrapper and the candy.
(d) Just the wrapper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles Bell say practice enables?

2. How does the conscious dimension of action occur?

3. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?

4. What is one thing that demonstrates the integration of movement in the shoulder, arm and hand?

5. What does the author say comes to life even before you rise out of bed in the morning?

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