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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 carve.
(b) The ability to catch objects.
(c) The ability to throw objects.
(d) The ability to hunt.

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

3. What did the brain do when the forelimbs were no longer used to walk?
(a) Made them functional in other areas.
(b) Retrained itself not to use them for walking
(c) Developed other means of walking on all fours.
(d) Nothing.

4. Who is Sir Charles Bell?
(a) A Scottish surgeon who is a contemporary of Charles Darwin.
(b) A famous Scottish composer.
(c) The only British doctor who performs surgery even after the loss of one hand.
(d) A famous Irish composer.

5. What does Merlin Donald's theory of cultural and cognitive evolution propose?
(a) The human brain developed in a stop-and-go process.
(b) The groupings of tribes developed in a two-stage process.
(c) The human brain developed in a three-stage process.
(d) The human body developed in a three-stage process.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is one thing that demonstrates the integration of movement in the shoulder, arm and hand?

4. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?

5. What does the coordination of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones do?

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