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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the ability to design and manufacture tools considered by Wilson?
(a) The way to take advantage of the hand's capabilities.
(b) A problem-solving strategy.
(c) The only way the brain can solve mechanical problems.
(d) The way humans evolve.

2. Who says that the hand and brain both speak to each other?
(a) Merlin Donald.
(b) Frank Wilson.
(c) Robertson Davies.
(d) Henry Plotkin.

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

4. How long can a grip on a rock last for a climber?
(a) It is incalculable.
(b) Several minutes.
(c) Twenty seconds.
(d) Forty seconds.

5. Who is David who is mentioned in this chapter?
(a) Wilson's boyhood friend.
(b) Wilson's cousin.
(c) Wilson's brother.
(d) An anonymous rock climber.

6. What is the other main reason the author writes this book on the hand?
(a) His work as a painter.
(b) His work as a orthopedic doctor.
(c) His work as a neurologist.
(d) His work as an art teacher.

7. What does Charles Bell say practice enables?
(a) The juggler to manage a dozen or more objects.
(b) The hand and eye to develop as sense organs.
(c) The juggler to talk and juggle at the same time.
(d) The juggler to juggle and chew gum at the same time.

8. What is the purpose of the shoulder, arm and hand in being fully integrated?
(a) To act as a fulcrum.
(b) To work in tandem.
(c) To function simultaneously as one.
(d) To provide more leverage together.

9. What sport does David participate in during High School?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Wrestling.
(d) Basketball.

10. What does Charles Sherrington claim about the tip of the thumb and index finger?
(a) They are treated like the sensitive part of the retina.
(b) They have more nerve endings than the other fingers.
(c) They are unable to distinguish different types of movement.
(d) They are unable to feel tiny movements.

11. How does a goat eat a piece of candy?
(a) Just the wrapper.
(b) Sometimes just the wrapper and sometimes just the candy.
(c) Just the candy.
(d) The wrapper and the candy.

12. What is paleoanthropology?
(a) The study of matriarchal civilizations.
(b) The study of human civilizations.
(c) The study of evolution of animals.
(d) The study of ancient, human origins.

13. From what does the word neuron derive its meaning?
(a) A Slavic word for transmit.
(b) A Latin word for cord or fiber.
(c) A Slavic word for entangle
(d) A Greek word for cord or fiber.

14. What does Galvani discover about electrical forces?
(a) The are initiators of action.
(b) They are charged either negative or positive.
(c) They are emitted by a muscle's contractions.
(d) They are shorted out by a muscle's contractions.

15. What does the author attempt to do that is not a well-orchestrated pattern of learning from simple to more complex?
(a) Playing the saxophone.
(b) Build a model airplane.
(c) Brain surgery.
(d) Playing the piano.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the neocortex size reliably predict?

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

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

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

5. What does the author say is a choreographed skill?

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