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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Head for the Hands and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did ground mammals eat at this time?
(a) Just small rodents.
(b) Mostly nuts and grass.
(c) Mostly birds.
(d) Vegetarian matter or carnivores.

2. What does the Israeli physicist perceive as a sophisticated controller of movement?
(a) The brain.
(b) The heart.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Amino acids.

3. What is the hand considered in the metaphor in number 26?
(a) The beak.
(b) The block.
(c) The bucket.
(d) The balance beam.

4. Who must suspend their disbelief?
(a) The doctor.
(b) No one.
(c) The Shamen.
(d) The patient.

5. What is sometimes attributed to intelligence or gender?
(a) Good penmanship.
(b) Which hand one uses as the dominent hand.
(c) Coordination.
(d) The uses to which one puts the hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a second language requirement?

2. What skills does Wilson say today's warriors learn?

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

4. Who is Seymour Sarason?

5. What do some scientists say practicing a skill using one hand more frequently than the other does?

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