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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lucy to Lulu to Rose.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By what age do most young children begin to make sentences?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 6 months.

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

4. What is one thing that demonstrates the integration of movement in the shoulder, arm and hand?
(a) The rotation of the arm.
(b) The unfolding of the fingers.
(c) The rotation of the palm
(d) The clenching of the fist.

5. How does Broca identify an area in the brain that controls speech?
(a) By examining an MRI in a person who has never been able to speak.
(b) By examining the brain of a stroke patient who is left speechless.
(c) By small electrical charges administered to different areas of the brain.
(d) By a drug that changes the speech area of the brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a polylith?

2. How is the arm different from the leg in how it's attached to the body?

3. Who calls the hidden structure of words "innate syntax"?

4. What does Wilson say is not genetic?

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

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