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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Articulate Hand.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What often dictates which hand is dominate?
(a) The larger of the two hands tends to be dominent.
(b) Social pressures.
(c) The smaller of the two hands tends to be dominent.
(d) The baby deciding to use one or the other more often.

2. According to Charles Sherrington, what are sensors to the target object?
(a) The palm and the nerves in the cerebral cortex.
(b) The retina and the palm.
(c) The fngertips and the palm.
(d) The retina and fingertips.

3. How many muscles that are attached to the thumb enable it to do its work?
(a) Eight or nine.
(b) About six.
(c) Twelve or thirteen.
(d) Four.

4. What is sometimes attributed to intelligence or gender?
(a) The uses to which one puts the hand.
(b) Good penmanship.
(c) Which hand one uses as the dominent hand.
(d) Coordination.

5. According to Charles Sherrington, what is a natural progression?
(a) Juggling with increasing number of objects.
(b) The learning of focus.
(c) Using intent.
(d) The learning of motor skills.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jack restoring?

2. What is one thing that shoulder and forearm development enabled?

3. What is the critical significance of the paddle in Duchenne's model?

4. How does the brain teach itself in order to juggle?

5. To what was the pre-human arm metaphorically compared?

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