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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. According to Wilson, what did the expansion of territory by hominids require?
(a) Equality of the sexes.
(b) Good leadership.
(c) Group cooperation.
(d) Inequality of the sexes.

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

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

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

5. What did the brain do when the forelimbs were no longer used to walk?
(a) Made them functional in other areas.
(b) Retrained itself not to use them for walking
(c) Developed other means of walking on all fours.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sir Charles Bell?

2. What did hominids require in order to expand their range beyond the jungle?

3. What type of control does a human or ape exert over its arm to execute a move?

4. What is the other main reason the author writes this book on the hand?

5. What is the hand considered in the metaphor in number 26?

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