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

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

3. What is one very important problem-solving strategy?
(a) Language.
(b) Creating tribes.
(c) Farming.
(d) Organizing.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one thing that prompted the author to write this book on the hand?

3. How is the arm different from the leg in how it's attached to the body?

4. What does the author say we are dependent upon that we rarely think about?

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

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