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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 problem causes the author to reach a turning point in his thinking about the hand?
(a) A stroke.
(b) A finger amputation.
(c) A broken wrist.
(d) Musician's cramp.

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

3. What does the author say is a choreographed skill?
(a) Getting the children ready for school while planning your day at the office.
(b) Making breakfast while on the phone and reading the newspaper.
(c) Making sure a person performs all their morning abulations.
(d) The way the hand performs thousands of activities.

4. What type of control does a human or ape exert over its arm to execute a move?
(a) Intermittant.
(b) Unconscious.
(c) Both conscious and unconscious.
(d) Conscious.

5. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?
(a) The center of gravity.
(b) The speed at which the body can move.
(c) The buoyancy of the body.
(d) The ability to play a sport.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what was the pre-human arm metaphorically compared?

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

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

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

5. What does the neocortex size reliably predict?

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