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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Jack restoring?
2. What do some scientists say practicing a skill using one hand more frequently than the other does?
3. What helps the high school teacher?
4. What provides visuomotor perception for a doctor?
5. For how long has the brain been preadapted for speech?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the title of Feldenkrais' book and what does the book claim?
2. What does Plotkin say about secondary heuristics?
3. Who is Paul Broca and for what is he known?
4. What is one thing that influences which hand is dominant and what are a couple other characteristics that are often associated with one dominant hand or the other?
5. How has the hand been used throughout its long history?
6. Explain the term "BackTur."
7. What are Wilson's conclusions about musical talent or heuristic?
8. What does Feldenkrais say about how parents can inhibit their child's abilities?
9. Who is Jeanne Bamberger and what does Wilson write about her work?
10. What does the author think about concerning a high school language teacher?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Anatomically, ape and human hands have been, until recently, considered functionally equivalent by anthropologists. The prehuman arm, however, was considered functionally and anatomically different metaphorically by analysis to a construction crane and its operator.
1. Explain the metaphor of the prehuman being related to a crane. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. Explain what part of the body is the crane operator in the above metaphor and how it relates to the use of the hand. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. Discuss the following statement in relation to modern human society. When the forelimbs were relieved of the duty to walk on and support body weight, the brain enabled them to become functional in many other areas and skills. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
The Hand belongs to the non-fiction genre. Discuss the following:
1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the non-fiction genre.
2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.
3. What do you think is the difference between a non-fiction and a novel?
Essay Topic 3
Hands can learn to function in a complementary partnership, become an articulate organ with which to express oneself and associate complex motor linkages of hand and brain.
1. Give three examples of hands working as complementary partners and explain, in depth, those examples. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. What does the author mean by the following statement? Hands can become an articulate organ with which to express itself. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. What does the author mean by the following statement? Hands can associate complex motor linkages of hand and brain. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
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