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

2. What is one activity the author mentions that the hand usually does in the morning?
(a) Plays with a football.
(b) Grooms the dog.
(c) Conducts a symphony.
(d) Twisting a water faucet.

3. What does the author say we are dependent upon that we rarely think about?
(a) Our food.
(b) Our interaction with others.
(c) Our hands.
(d) Our appointment books.

4. How does a goat eat a piece of candy?
(a) The wrapper and the candy.
(b) Just the candy.
(c) Sometimes just the wrapper and sometimes just the candy.
(d) Just the wrapper.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sir Charles Bell?

2. What problem causes the author to reach a turning point in his thinking about the hand?

3. What does the author say is a choreographed skill?

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

5. What enables the human to weigh and relate facts to solve problems?

(see the answer key)

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