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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 is one thing that shoulder and forearm development enabled?
(a) The ability to catch objects.
(b) The ability to throw objects.
(c) The ability to hunt.
(d) The ability to carve.

2. What is the ability to design and manufacture tools considered by Wilson?
(a) The way to take advantage of the hand's capabilities.
(b) The only way the brain can solve mechanical problems.
(c) A problem-solving strategy.
(d) The way humans evolve.

3. What problem causes the author to reach a turning point in his thinking about the hand?
(a) A stroke.
(b) Musician's cramp.
(c) A finger amputation.
(d) A broken wrist.

4. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?
(a) The speed at which the body can move.
(b) The center of gravity.
(c) The ability to play a sport.
(d) The buoyancy of the body.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one activity the author mentions that the hand usually does in the morning?

3. What does Henry Plotkin propose intelligence is?

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

5. According to Wilson, what did the expansion of territory by hominids require?

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