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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. What did hominids require in order to expand their range beyond the jungle?
(a) Opposing thumb.
(b) Walking upright.
(c) Brain evolution.
(d) Agriculture.

2. Who says that the hand and brain both speak to each other?
(a) Merlin Donald.
(b) Robertson Davies.
(c) Frank Wilson.
(d) Henry Plotkin.

3. What does the author attempt to do that is not a well-orchestrated pattern of learning from simple to more complex?
(a) Playing the piano.
(b) Build a model airplane.
(c) Brain surgery.
(d) Playing the saxophone.

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

5. According to Wilson, how many problem-solving strategies are there that stand out above all others?
(a) 4.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the brain do when the forelimbs were no longer used to walk?

3. What does Merlin Donald's theory of cultural and cognitive evolution propose?

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

5. How does a goat eat a piece of candy?

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