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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Head for the Hands and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From where does Sherrington discover signals originate to cause movement?
(a) The muscle itself.
(b) The brain.
(c) The spinal cord.
(d) The blood.

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

4. With whom does the University of New Mexico perform a study about communicative movements?
(a) UCLA.
(b) Gallaudet University.
(c) Stanford University.
(d) Harvard.

5. What did the brain do when the forelimbs were no longer used to walk?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Developed other means of walking on all fours.
(c) Made them functional in other areas.
(d) Retrained itself not to use them for walking

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what does the thumb have to be long enough?

3. What does Peter Reynolds spend years doing in New Guinea?

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

5. What educational goal does The Educated Mind discuss?

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