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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Arm We Brought Down From the Trees.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where in Europe does Wilson take his interest in the performance problems of musicians?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) Spain.

2. Until recently, how have anthropologists perceived ape and human hands?
(a) As functionally very different.
(b) As structurally equivalent.
(c) As functionally equivalent.
(d) As structurally radically different.

3. What is the hand considered in the metaphor in number 26?
(a) The block.
(b) The bucket.
(c) The balance beam.
(d) The beak.

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

5. Who is Sir Charles Bell?
(a) A famous Irish composer.
(b) A Scottish surgeon who is a contemporary of Charles Darwin.
(c) A famous Scottish composer.
(d) The only British doctor who performs surgery even after the loss of one hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says that the hand and brain both speak to each other?

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

3. What does the neocortex size reliably predict?

4. Who is Robin Dunbar?

5. What is the purpose of the shoulder, arm and hand in being fully integrated?

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