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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Touch, Tender and Tenacious.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say is a choreographed skill?
(a) Making sure a person performs all their morning abulations.
(b) Making breakfast while on the phone and reading the newspaper.
(c) The way the hand performs thousands of activities.
(d) Getting the children ready for school while planning your day at the office.

2. How many years ago did changes in global climate initiate an ecosystem of fruits and flowers?
(a) 50 thousand.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 1.5 million.
(d) 65 million.

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

4. 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 leaves one muscle group unbalanced.
(d) It sends simultaneous signals that result in the interplay of movement.

5. How does the brain teach itself in order to juggle?
(a) By learning how to trigger groups of muscles rather than individual muscles.
(b) By requiring the juggler to repeat a motion over and over.
(c) By learning how to trigger individual muscles rather than groups of muscles.
(d) By making the brain and hand work together.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one term related to the scale of movement required by two hands acting in partnership?

2. What is one very important problem-solving strategy?

3. Who is Reed Hearon?

4. What does Duchenne figure out how to demonstrate?

5. Who coins the term ChomTur?

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