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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sport does David participate in during High School?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Wrestling.

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

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

4. How does Greenfield say she knows how a child will solve Greenfield's stick puzzle?
(a) By knowing the child's age.
(b) By observing which foot the child starts out on when walking.
(c) By knowing if the child can read.
(d) By observing which thumb is larger.

5. What does the coordination of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones do?
(a) Creates a system of interrelated functions.
(b) It orients the arm and hand to make adjusting and tension-setting movements that keep the body upright.
(c) Forms a synergistic system.
(d) Creates tensions to enable movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Until recently, how have anthropologists perceived ape and human hands?

2. What is the weight of the touch of a pianist's fingers on the keyboard?

3. Who calls the hidden structure of words "innate syntax"?

4. What does the beginning of this chapter say the hand been used throughout its long history?

5. What does Galen discover?

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