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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Grip of the Past.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author attempt to do that is not a well-orchestrated pattern of learning from simple to more complex?
(a) Brain surgery.
(b) Playing the saxophone.
(c) Playing the piano.
(d) Build a model airplane.

3. How many key strokes per second can a pianist reach?
(a) 20.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.

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

5. What does Herophilus discover?
(a) Some neurons connect muscles to the spinal cord; whereas, other connect muscles to bone.
(b) Neurons can regenerate.
(c) Neurons cannot regenerate.
(d) The muscles along the spinal cord are denser because of the neurons packed in them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing that demonstrates the integration of movement in the shoulder, arm and hand?

2. Why was Serge Percelly told he had the eye for tennis?

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

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

5. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?

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