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

2. How does the brain teach itself in order to juggle?
(a) By learning how to trigger groups of muscles rather than individual muscles.
(b) By learning how to trigger individual muscles rather than groups of muscles.
(c) By requiring the juggler to repeat a motion over and over.
(d) By making the brain and hand work together.

3. From where does Sherrington discover signals originate to cause movement?
(a) The brain.
(b) The muscle itself.
(c) The blood.
(d) The spinal cord.

4. By what age do children become improvisers who behave with intelligence?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 11.

5. For what does the thumb have to be long enough?
(a) To touch the last finger at its base.
(b) To bend at a 90 degree angle.
(c) To reach the fingertips.
(d) To have two joints.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a polylith?

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

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

4. According to Wilson, how many problem-solving strategies are there that stand out above all others?

5. What does Henry Plotkin propose intelligence is?

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