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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Puppet Lessons from Alexandria and Dusseldorf.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Until recently, how have anthropologists perceived ape and human hands?
(a) As functionally very different.
(b) As structurally radically different.
(c) As functionally equivalent.
(d) As structurally equivalent.

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

3. What did hominids require in order to expand their range beyond the jungle?
(a) Brain evolution.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Walking upright.
(d) Opposing thumb.

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

5. What is one activity the author mentions that the hand usually does in the morning?
(a) Grooms the dog.
(b) Twisting a water faucet.
(c) Plays with a football.
(d) Conducts a symphony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the hand "think" about as it helps you get ready for the day?

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

3. How does the conscious dimension of action occur?

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

5. What type of control does a human or ape exert over its arm to execute a move?

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