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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 the hand "think" about as it helps you get ready for the day?
(a) How to move each muscle fgr each task.
(b) How to grasp something without dropping it.
(c) Nothing.
(d) How to movie each tendon and ligament for each task.

2. What is the critical significance of the paddle in Duchenne's model?
(a) It leaves one muscle group balanced.
(b) It allows for greater rotation.
(c) It sends simultaneous signals that result in the interplay of movement.
(d) It leaves one muscle group unbalanced.

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

4. What is the ability to design and manufacture tools considered by Wilson?
(a) A problem-solving strategy.
(b) The only way the brain can solve mechanical problems.
(c) The way to take advantage of the hand's capabilities.
(d) The way humans evolve.

5. How is the arm different from the leg in how it's attached to the body?
(a) The arm is attached by muscle rather than bone.
(b) The arm swings 180 degrees; whereas, the leg swings only 90 degrees.
(c) The arm is suspended away from the body; whereas the leg is anchored to the body..
(d) The arm is attached in several places; whereas, the leg is attached in only one place.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Duchenne figure out how to demonstrate?

2. What is the other main reason the author writes this book on the hand?

3. What does Henry Plotkin propose intelligence is?

4. How does the conscious dimension of action occur?

5. What is the hand considered in the metaphor in number 26?

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