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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 can can restore feeling to one who has lost a sense of connection with their body and enable movement again?
(a) Regeneration of nerve cells.
(b) Small jolts of electricity to muscles.
(c) Visualization.
(d) The awareness of the effect of the brain on controlling movement.

2. How is the dominant hand theoretically controlled?
(a) The number of nerve endings in each hand.
(b) Use.
(c) Genes.
(d) They have no concrete evidence as to how it's determined.

3. What is a "laterality quotient"?
(a) A way to decide if one hand will perform a task or the other.
(b) A spectrum of use.
(c) A quotient the brain evolves to determine dominance.
(d) A spectrum of handedness.

4. To whom does Wilson refer for information on heuristics of language and music?
(a) Rolf Molich.
(b) Chomsky.
(c) George Polya.
(d) Plotkin and Donald.

5. What does the coordination of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones do?
(a) Forms a synergistic system.
(b) It orients the arm and hand to make adjusting and tension-setting movements that keep the body upright.
(c) Creates tensions to enable movement.
(d) Creates a system of interrelated functions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is David who is mentioned in this chapter?

2. How many muscles that are attached to the thumb enable it to do its work?

3. How many fingers does George saw off his right hand by accident?

4. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?

5. How many levels does the continuum of communicative movements have?

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