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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. To what is Franz Liszt compared?
(a) Michelangelo.
(b) Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest.
(c) Rodin.
(d) Mozart's ability to create music at a very early age.

2. What does Peter Reynolds spend years doing in New Guinea?
(a) Observing young baboons.
(b) Observing gorillas.
(c) Studying the ancient artifacts of the extinct culture.
(d) Observing chimpanzees.

3. Who is an Israeli physicist mentioned in this chapter?
(a) Jonathon Fleishman.
(b) David Golems.
(c) Abraham Disera.
(d) Moshe Feldenkrais.

4. What does the author say we are dependent upon that we rarely think about?
(a) Our appointment books.
(b) Our hands.
(c) Our food.
(d) Our interaction with others.

5. How does Broca identify an area in the brain that controls speech?
(a) By small electrical charges administered to different areas of the brain.
(b) By examining the brain of a stroke patient who is left speechless.
(c) By examining an MRI in a person who has never been able to speak.
(d) By a drug that changes the speech area of the brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rule does Greenfield propose?

2. How many muscles that are attached to the thumb enable it to do its work?

3. What do Lucy and her descendants get used to doing?

4. How many fingers does George saw off his right hand by accident?

5. What is one puzzling concern the author mentions in this chapter?

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