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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Twenty-Four-Karat Thumb.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem causes the author to reach a turning point in his thinking about the hand?
(a) A finger amputation.
(b) A stroke.
(c) Musician's cramp.
(d) A broken wrist.

2. What is the hand considered in the metaphor in number 26?
(a) The balance beam.
(b) The bucket.
(c) The block.
(d) The beak.

3. How many muscles that are attached to the thumb enable it to do its work?
(a) Four.
(b) Eight or nine.
(c) Twelve or thirteen.
(d) About six.

4. How many features of the human hand does Mary Marzke identify?
(a) 12.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 8.

5. What does Galen discover?
(a) Muscles cannot pull without ligaments acting in opposition.
(b) Pairs of muscles must pull in the same direction for action.
(c) Pairs of muscles are required to pull against each other for action.
(d) Ligaments pull muscles in the same direction for pulling and in opposite directions for pushing

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Robin Dunbar?

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

3. Who is Sir Charles Bell?

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

5. To what do marionettes exhibit similarities?

(see the answer key)

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