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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hand, Eye and Sky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What helps maintain a skill that is learned?
(a) The memory portion of the brain.
(b) Practice.
(c) Nothing; once it's learned it is always available.
(d) Visualizing the skill daily.

2. What is one thing that prompted the author to write this book on the hand?
(a) His father getting arthritis and his left hand becoming non-functional.
(b) His trying to learn to play a video game.
(c) His taking tennis lessons.
(d) His learning to play the piano.

3. What is the critical significance of the paddle in Duchenne's model?
(a) It leaves one muscle group balanced.
(b) It leaves one muscle group unbalanced.
(c) It sends simultaneous signals that result in the interplay of movement.
(d) It allows for greater rotation.

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

5. What type of control does a human or ape exert over its arm to execute a move?
(a) Unconscious.
(b) Intermittant.
(c) Both conscious and unconscious.
(d) Conscious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does juggling as learned and performed by Percelly provide?

2. What operator has to do to anticipate load weight and wind changes?

3. What supports the conscious dimension of action?

4. Who is Sir Charles Bell?

5. According to Charles Sherrington, what is a natural progression?

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