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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. To what do marionettes exhibit similarities?
(a) Leverage.
(b) The way a wedge works.
(c) Block and tackles.
(d) The human muscle and tendon configuration in arms and legs.

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

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

4. From where does Sherrington discover signals originate to cause movement?
(a) The spinal cord.
(b) The blood.
(c) The brain.
(d) The muscle itself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Galen discover?

2. What enables the human to weigh and relate facts to solve problems?

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

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

5. What is one thing that shoulder and forearm development enabled?

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