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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. How does David control the horses he raises?
(a) Behavior modification.
(b) Rope and harness.
(c) A touch of his hand.
(d) His mind.

2. What does Merlin Donald's theory of cultural and cognitive evolution propose?
(a) The human brain developed in a stop-and-go process.
(b) The human brain developed in a three-stage process.
(c) The groupings of tribes developed in a two-stage process.
(d) The human body developed in a three-stage process.

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

4. What operator has to do to anticipate load weight and wind changes?
(a) An elevator operator.
(b) A crane operator.
(c) A grain elevator operator.
(d) A bulldozer operator.

5. What does Charles Sherrington claim about the tip of the thumb and index finger?
(a) They have more nerve endings than the other fingers.
(b) They are treated like the sensitive part of the retina.
(c) They are unable to feel tiny movements.
(d) They are unable to distinguish different types of movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Herophilus discover?

2. From where does Sherrington discover signals originate to cause movement?

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

4. What does juggling as learned and performed by Percelly provide?

5. What helps maintain a skill that is learned?

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