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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Articulate Hand.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Henry Plotkin propose intelligence is?
(a) A primary heuristic.
(b) A learned response.
(c) A secondary heuristic.
(d) A genetically fixed amount.

3. By what age do children become improvisers who behave with intelligence?
(a) 11.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

4. What is sometimes attributed to intelligence or gender?
(a) Good penmanship.
(b) Coordination.
(c) The uses to which one puts the hand.
(d) Which hand one uses as the dominent hand.

5. What does Galvani discover about electrical forces?
(a) The are initiators of action.
(b) They are emitted by a muscle's contractions.
(c) They are charged either negative or positive.
(d) They are shorted out by a muscle's contractions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many key strokes per second can a pianist reach?

2. With whom does the University of New Mexico perform a study about communicative movements?

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

4. How does David control the horses he raises?

5. How many types of grips does Mary Marzke classify?

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