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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 does right-handed knapping tend to do?
(a) Produce more flakes than left-handed knapping.
(b) Makes the left hand atrophy.
(c) Makes the knapper more create in how s/he makes the tool.
(d) Makes the knapper more proficient with both hands.

2. What does the beginning of this chapter say the hand been used throughout its long history?
(a) Only as a tool.
(b) As a means of conquering.
(c) For both social interaction and attention.
(d) To create art.

3. What does Galen discover?
(a) Pairs of muscles must pull in the same direction for action.
(b) Ligaments pull muscles in the same direction for pulling and in opposite directions for pushing
(c) Muscles cannot pull without ligaments acting in opposition.
(d) Pairs of muscles are required to pull against each other for action.

4. To what do writing and drawing relate?
(a) Thinking.
(b) Touch and sight.
(c) Seeing and hearing.
(d) Many other skills using small tools.

5. In what way does Yves Guiard propose both hands perform?
(a) Spontaneously.
(b) In partnership.
(c) In opposition.
(d) Precisely.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what does the word neuron derive its meaning?

3. What is one term related to the scale of movement required by two hands acting in partnership?

4. What do Lucy and her descendants get used to doing?

5. Who is Reed Hearon?

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