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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Touch, Tender and Tenacious.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long has the brain been preadapted for speech?
(a) Over 100,000 years.
(b) For about 25,000 years.
(c) For about 10,000 years.
(d) More than a million years.

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

3. What is Jack restoring?
(a) A 1944 Dodge.
(b) A 1949 Mercury.
(c) A 1954 Dodge.
(d) A 1956 Chevy.

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

5. What does William Calvin claim about female apes?
(a) They fight more than the males.
(b) They are often grouped by age.
(c) They nurture less than the males.
(d) They are the main hunters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a polylith?

2. What does Reynolds do in Australia?

3. Who describes the hand as the "consummation of all perfection as an instrument"?

4. What supports the conscious dimension of action?

5. What is BachTur?

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