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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bad Boys, Polyliths, and the Heterotechnic Revolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the juggling riddle?
(a) How three balls can be in motion yet one held in the hand at the same time.
(b) Asking riddles while you juggler to demonstrate your expertise.
(c) How many balls it takes a juggler to feel accomplished.
(d) How a juggler can hold two balls in each hand and juggle two.

2. What does Reynolds do in Australia?
(a) Study the aborigines.
(b) Observe how the aborigines interact with the white people.
(c) Study the koala.
(d) Study the kangeroo.

3. Why was Serge Percelly told he had the eye for tennis?
(a) His hand-eye coordination was above average.
(b) His forearms were unusually well developed.
(c) His retina had more nerves endings than average.
(d) He could see where the ball was going and meet it there.

4. What does the neocortex size reliably predict?
(a) Aggressiveness.
(b) Group size.
(c) Evolution rate.
(d) Intelligence.

5. Who says that the hand and brain both speak to each other?
(a) Frank Wilson.
(b) Merlin Donald.
(c) Henry Plotkin.
(d) Robertson Davies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is now known to be important that originally was not thought to be so during early studies?

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

3. What does Galvani discover about electrical forces?

4. How does Greenfield say she knows how a child will solve Greenfield's stick puzzle?

5. What did hominids require in order to expand their range beyond the jungle?

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