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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Puppet Lessons from Alexandria and Dusseldorf.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rene Decartes think fluid in the eye does?
(a) Damages the optic nerve.
(b) Keeps the iris the correct color.
(c) Causes cataracts.
(d) Causes action.

3. What does Galen discover?
(a) Pairs of muscles must pull in the same direction for action.
(b) Pairs of muscles are required to pull against each other for action.
(c) Muscles cannot pull without ligaments acting in opposition.
(d) Ligaments pull muscles in the same direction for pulling and in opposite directions for pushing

4. What is one term related to the scale of movement required by two hands acting in partnership?
(a) Macromedian.
(b) Iconometric.
(c) Macrometric.
(d) Melometric.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Wilson, what did the expansion of territory by hominids require?

3. What did the brain do when the forelimbs were no longer used to walk?

4. From what does the word neuron derive its meaning?

5. To what do marionettes exhibit similarities?

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