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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 Duchenne figure out how to demonstrate?
(a) The way a muscle expands in order to pull.
(b) The way an electrical charge stops movement.
(c) The way a muscle contracts in order to push.
(d) The physiology of movement.

2. What is one thing that prompted the author to write this book on the hand?
(a) His trying to learn to play a video game.
(b) His taking tennis lessons.
(c) His father getting arthritis and his left hand becoming non-functional.
(d) His learning to play the piano.

3. What does the author say comes to life even before you rise out of bed in the morning?
(a) Hands and arms.
(b) Your brain.
(c) Your digestive juices.
(d) Your dog.

4. How does the conscious dimension of action occur?
(a) There is no conscious dimension of action.
(b) With the thought of moving.
(c) With the unconscious thought first.
(d) With the movement itself.

5. What does the author say we are dependent upon that we rarely think about?
(a) Our appointment books.
(b) Our food.
(c) Our hands.
(d) Our interaction with others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the other main reason the author writes this book on the hand?

2. What does Rene Decartes think fluid in the eye does?

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

4. What operator has to do to anticipate load weight and wind changes?

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

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