The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Frank R. Wilson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Frank R. Wilson
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Touch, Tender and Tenacious.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the juggling riddle?
(a) How a juggler can hold two balls in each hand and juggle two.
(b) How three balls can be in motion yet one held in the hand at the same time.
(c) How many balls it takes a juggler to feel accomplished.
(d) Asking riddles while you juggler to demonstrate your expertise.

2. Who is Reed Hearon?
(a) The owner of LuLu's restaurant.
(b) Wilson's co-writer.
(c) A math professor at Yale.
(d) The most famous chef in the United States.

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

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

5. To what does Kathleen Gibson attribute human intelligence?
(a) Dense brain tissue.
(b) An insatiable curiosity to discover something new.
(c) The ability to interpret abstract ideas.
(d) Opposable thumbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Robin Dunbar?

2. What is one thing that prompted the author to write this book on the hand?

3. What does the beginning of this chapter say the hand been used throughout its long history?

4. What is a second language requirement?

5. How does Broca identify an area in the brain that controls speech?

(see the answer key)

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