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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Articulate Hand.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many features of the human hand does Mary Marzke identify?
(a) 12.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 8.

2. What is one feature of the human hand that Marzke identifies?
(a) Greater range.
(b) Greater flexibility.
(c) Longer thumb.
(d) Larger knuckles.

3. What does the author say is a choreographed skill?
(a) Making sure a person performs all their morning abulations.
(b) Getting the children ready for school while planning your day at the office.
(c) Making breakfast while on the phone and reading the newspaper.
(d) The way the hand performs thousands of activities.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rene Decartes think fluid in the eye does?

2. What is one thing the thumb is uniquely able to do?

3. What do both knapping and rock climbing require?

4. What is paleoanthropology?

5. Up until a certain point, what separated the human hand from that of the ape's hand?

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