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

2. What is one puzzling concern the author mentions in this chapter?
(a) The reason some people's hands are proportionately larger than normal.
(b) The hand's ability to be adept at rock-climbing and piano-playing.
(c) The hand's ability to move faster than the eye.
(d) The reason some people's hands are proportionately smaller than normal.

3. What is one activity the author mentions that the hand usually does in the morning?
(a) Twisting a water faucet.
(b) Conducts a symphony.
(c) Plays with a football.
(d) Grooms the dog.

4. What does Rene Decartes think fluid in the eye does?
(a) Damages the optic nerve.
(b) Keeps the iris the correct color.
(c) Causes cataracts.
(d) Causes action.

5. What does Charles Bell say practice enables?
(a) The juggler to manage a dozen or more objects.
(b) The hand and eye to develop as sense organs.
(c) The juggler to talk and juggle at the same time.
(d) The juggler to juggle and chew gum at the same time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say we are dependent upon that we rarely think about?

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

3. Who is David who is mentioned in this chapter?

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

5. What is one very important problem-solving strategy?

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