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

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 | Eight Week Quiz A

Frank R. Wilson
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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. According to Wilson, what did the expansion of territory by hominids require?
(a) Group cooperation.
(b) Equality of the sexes.
(c) Inequality of the sexes.
(d) Good leadership.

2. What is one thing that shoulder and forearm development enabled?
(a) The ability to catch objects.
(b) The ability to carve.
(c) The ability to hunt.
(d) The ability to throw objects.

3. What did the brain do when the forelimbs were no longer used to walk?
(a) Made them functional in other areas.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Retrained itself not to use them for walking
(d) Developed other means of walking on all fours.

4. What problem causes the author to reach a turning point in his thinking about the hand?
(a) A broken wrist.
(b) A finger amputation.
(c) A stroke.
(d) Musician's cramp.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in Europe does Wilson take his interest in the performance problems of musicians?

2. What does the author say we are dependent upon that we rarely think about?

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

4. Who says that the hand and brain both speak to each other?

5. How does a goat eat a piece of candy?

(see the answer key)

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