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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 Peter Reynolds spend years doing in New Guinea?
(a) Observing young baboons.
(b) Observing chimpanzees.
(c) Studying the ancient artifacts of the extinct culture.
(d) Observing gorillas.

2. What does Galvani discover about electrical forces?
(a) They are emitted by a muscle's contractions.
(b) They are charged either negative or positive.
(c) They are shorted out by a muscle's contractions.
(d) The are initiators of action.

3. Up until a certain point, what separated the human hand from that of the ape's hand?
(a) The number of digits.
(b) The thumb.
(c) The size.
(d) The texture.

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

5. Why is now known to be important that originally was not thought to be so during early studies?
(a) The thumb.
(b) Strength.
(c) Length of digits.
(d) Flexibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what do marionettes exhibit similarities?

2. On the other hand, why might juggling have a use?

3. What can both humans and primates make?

4. What does Duchenne figure out how to demonstrate?

5. What does Herophilus discover?

(see the answer key)

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