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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 juggling as learned and performed by Percelly provide?
(a) Good daily exercise.
(b) A way to become a professional tennis player.
(c) An entertaining dimension to understanding the mind-body dichotomy.
(d) A way to have fun in becoming a better tennis player.

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

3. What does Merlin Donald's theory of cultural and cognitive evolution propose?
(a) The human brain developed in a three-stage process.
(b) The human brain developed in a stop-and-go process.
(c) The groupings of tribes developed in a two-stage process.
(d) The human body developed in a three-stage process.

4. How does Greenfield say she knows how a child will solve Greenfield's stick puzzle?
(a) By observing which thumb is larger.
(b) By observing which foot the child starts out on when walking.
(c) By knowing the child's age.
(d) By knowing if the child can read.

5. What do Haeckel, Reynolds and Dunbar confirm?
(a) Children become problem solvers even before they can talk.
(b) Aspects of the evolutionary process perceived in Greenfield's theory.
(c) Children become improvisers before they can even talk.
(d) Apes and children have a very different evolutionary process from about six months on.

Short Answer Questions

1. What enables the human to weigh and relate facts to solve problems?

2. What does Duchenne figure out how to demonstrate?

3. What is the ability to design and manufacture tools considered by Wilson?

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

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

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