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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. What did ground mammals eat at this time?
(a) Mostly nuts and grass.
(b) Mostly birds.
(c) Vegetarian matter or carnivores.
(d) Just small rodents.

2. What are developed rather than existing from birth?
(a) Human intelligence and ability to think.
(b) Human intelligence, talent and skill.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Talent and language skills.

3. Who is Reed Hearon?
(a) The owner of LuLu's restaurant.
(b) A math professor at Yale.
(c) The most famous chef in the United States.
(d) Wilson's co-writer.

4. To what does Kathleen Gibson attribute human intelligence?
(a) Opposable thumbs.
(b) Dense brain tissue.
(c) An insatiable curiosity to discover something new.
(d) The ability to interpret abstract ideas.

5. What does the Israeli physicist perceive as a sophisticated controller of movement?
(a) Amino acids.
(b) The heart.
(c) The brain.
(d) Electricity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Anat?

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

3. Until recently, how have anthropologists perceived ape and human hands?

4. By what age do most young children begin to make sentences?

5. Why does the author say juggling might be considered a pastime that accomplishes nothing?

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