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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 does the author say is a choreographed skill?
(a) Making breakfast while on the phone and reading the newspaper.
(b) Getting the children ready for school while planning your day at the office.
(c) Making sure a person performs all their morning abulations.
(d) The way the hand performs thousands of activities.

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

3. What supports the conscious dimension of action?
(a) The conscious intent to move.
(b) The brain.
(c) The unconscious interaction of the neuromuscular system.
(d) The unconscious image of movement.

4. What is one activity the author mentions that the hand usually does in the morning?
(a) Conducts a symphony.
(b) Twisting a water faucet.
(c) Grooms the dog.
(d) Plays with a football.

5. What did the brain do when the forelimbs were no longer used to walk?
(a) Developed other means of walking on all fours.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Made them functional in other areas.
(d) Retrained itself not to use them for walking

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one very important problem-solving strategy?

2. From what does the word neuron derive its meaning?

3. What does the coordination of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones do?

4. What does the author say comes to life even before you rise out of bed in the morning?

5. What problem causes the author to reach a turning point in his thinking about the hand?

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