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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 is one thing that prompted the author to write this book on the hand?
(a) His trying to learn to play a video game.
(b) His learning to play the piano.
(c) His taking tennis lessons.
(d) His father getting arthritis and his left hand becoming non-functional.

2. What is one very important problem-solving strategy?
(a) Creating tribes.
(b) Organizing.
(c) Farming.
(d) Language.

3. From where does Sherrington discover signals originate to cause movement?
(a) The blood.
(b) The brain.
(c) The spinal cord.
(d) The muscle itself.

4. What is the other main reason the author writes this book on the hand?
(a) His work as an art teacher.
(b) His work as a orthopedic doctor.
(c) His work as a neurologist.
(d) His work as a painter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Wilson, why do children not usually enjoy doing juggling?

2. Why does the author say juggling might be considered a pastime that accomplishes nothing?

3. Why is now known to be important that originally was not thought to be so during early studies?

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

5. Who describes the hand as the "consummation of all perfection as an instrument"?

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