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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Israeli physicist perceive as a sophisticated controller of movement?
(a) Amino acids.
(b) Electricity.
(c) The brain.
(d) The heart.

2. To what is primate grooming connected?
(a) Learning ways to use the hands.
(b) Hands-on therapy.
(c) Learning dexterity.
(d) Human grooming.

3. What is one of medicine's oldest links?
(a) Medicines.
(b) Existence of pathogens.
(c) The Hippocratic oath.
(d) Magic and its connection with charismatic persuasion.

4. What can can restore feeling to one who has lost a sense of connection with their body and enable movement again?
(a) Visualization.
(b) Small jolts of electricity to muscles.
(c) The awareness of the effect of the brain on controlling movement.
(d) Regeneration of nerve cells.

5. What is BachTur?
(a) The musical equivalent of ChomTur.
(b) The way music stimulates the parts of the brain the deal with language.
(c) There is no such term.
(d) The way music enables speech.

6. What is aphasia?
(a) A language impairment.
(b) A motor impairment that affects the hand.
(c) A way of charting the areas of the brain.
(d) A disease that limits the function of the medulla.

7. What does Wilson say is not genetic?
(a) The ability to learn languages.
(b) The ability to sing.
(c) The ability to hear tone.
(d) Musical talent.

8. What skills does Wilson say today's warriors learn?
(a) Fishing and hunting.
(b) Those needed to wield skillets, pots and pans after chopping and slicing in kitchens.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Hunting and gathering.

9. What rule does Greenfield propose?
(a) A hierarchical rule generator.
(b) A rule that illustrates how an adult can sometimes change hand dominence.
(c) A rule that a person uses to decide what skills to develop.
(d) A rule that illustrates how a child can sometimes change hand dominence.

10. What must the magician do for success?
(a) Create confidence.
(b) Create trust.
(c) Create an illusion.
(d) Create disillusionment.

11. Who must suspend their disbelief?
(a) The doctor.
(b) No one.
(c) The patient.
(d) The Shamen.

12. What is one level of communicative movement?
(a) Sitting in a lotus position.
(b) Lying in a fetal position.
(c) Iconic hand gestures.
(d) Iconic eye movements.

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

14. What does the Israeli physicist desire to do rather than increasing muscle strength in a paralyzed person?
(a) Increase muscle flexibility.
(b) Increase pain tolerance levels.
(c) Decrease messag flow to the brain so as not to overwhelm.
(d) Return message flow from the brain as it was before paralysis.

15. What do some scientists say practicing a skill using one hand more frequently than the other does?
(a) Creates an unbalance in the brain.
(b) Creates a uneven situation that's difficult to correct.
(c) Makes them better at that skill with that hand.
(d) Causes a chemical inbalance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a consistent practice common to Feldenkrais and other methods of healing?

3. What did ground mammals eat at this time?

4. Why does Calvin think the female ape cradles her baby in its left arm?

5. How does black magic differ from white magic regarding a patient's belief?

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