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

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 operator has to do to anticipate load weight and wind changes?
(a) A grain elevator operator.
(b) An elevator operator.
(c) A crane operator.
(d) A bulldozer operator.

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

5. What does the neocortex size reliably predict?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Evolution rate.
(c) Aggressiveness.
(d) Group size.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where in Europe does Wilson take his interest in the performance problems of musicians?

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

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

5. What does the hand "think" about as it helps you get ready for the day?

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