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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 is the strength of a climber's grip on a rock face?
(a) Ups to 120 pound per square inch.
(b) There is no way to calculate that figure.
(c) Up to 50 pounds per square inch.
(d) Up to 80 pounds per square inch.

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

3. What does the author say is a choreographed skill?
(a) Making sure a person performs all their morning abulations.
(b) Getting the children ready for school while planning your day at the office.
(c) Making breakfast while on the phone and reading the newspaper.
(d) The way the hand performs thousands of activities.

4. How does a goat eat a piece of candy?
(a) Sometimes just the wrapper and sometimes just the candy.
(b) The wrapper and the candy.
(c) Just the candy.
(d) Just the wrapper.

5. What type of control does a human or ape exert over its arm to execute a move?
(a) Intermittant.
(b) Unconscious.
(c) Both conscious and unconscious.
(d) Conscious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did hominids require in order to expand their range beyond the jungle?

2. How does the conscious dimension of action occur?

3. What supports the conscious dimension of action?

4. What helps maintain a skill that is learned?

5. What does Herophilus discover?

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