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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 does Galvani discover about electrical forces?
(a) They are charged either negative or positive.
(b) They are shorted out by a muscle's contractions.
(c) The are initiators of action.
(d) They are emitted by a muscle's contractions.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says that the hand and brain both speak to each other?

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

3. What is one term related to the scale of movement required by two hands acting in partnership?

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

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

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