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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 other main reason the author writes this book on the hand?
(a) His work as an art teacher.
(b) His work as a neurologist.
(c) His work as a orthopedic doctor.
(d) His work as a painter.

2. What does Henry Plotkin propose intelligence is?
(a) A genetically fixed amount.
(b) A primary heuristic.
(c) A secondary heuristic.
(d) A learned response.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author attempt to do that is not a well-orchestrated pattern of learning from simple to more complex?

2. What is the ability to design and manufacture tools considered by Wilson?

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

4. What is the purpose of the shoulder, arm and hand in being fully integrated?

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

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