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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Arm We Brought Down From the Trees.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author say we are dependent upon that we rarely think about?
(a) Our food.
(b) Our appointment books.
(c) Our interaction with others.
(d) Our hands.

3. How is the arm different from the leg in how it's attached to the body?
(a) The arm is attached by muscle rather than bone.
(b) The arm is suspended away from the body; whereas the leg is anchored to the body..
(c) The arm swings 180 degrees; whereas, the leg swings only 90 degrees.
(d) The arm is attached in several places; whereas, the leg is attached in only one place.

4. What does Henry Plotkin propose intelligence is?
(a) A primary heuristic.
(b) A genetically fixed amount.
(c) A secondary heuristic.
(d) A learned response.

5. What is one thing that prompted the author to write this book on the hand?
(a) His father getting arthritis and his left hand becoming non-functional.
(b) His learning to play the piano.
(c) His taking tennis lessons.
(d) His trying to learn to play a video game.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the neocortex size reliably predict?

2. What does the author attempt to do that is not a well-orchestrated pattern of learning from simple to more complex?

3. To what was the pre-human arm metaphorically compared?

4. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?

5. According to Wilson, how many problem-solving strategies are there that stand out above all others?

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