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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 did hominids require in order to expand their range beyond the jungle?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Walking upright.
(c) Brain evolution.
(d) Opposing thumb.

2. What operator has to do to anticipate load weight and wind changes?
(a) A grain elevator operator.
(b) An elevator operator.
(c) A crane operator.
(d) A bulldozer operator.

3. What is the ability to design and manufacture tools considered by Wilson?
(a) The way to take advantage of the hand's capabilities.
(b) The way humans evolve.
(c) A problem-solving strategy.
(d) The only way the brain can solve mechanical problems.

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

5. How does the brain teach itself in order to juggle?
(a) By making the brain and hand work together.
(b) By learning how to trigger groups of muscles rather than individual muscles.
(c) By requiring the juggler to repeat a motion over and over.
(d) By learning how to trigger individual muscles rather than groups of muscles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author attempt to do that is not a well-orchestrated pattern of learning from simple to more complex?

2. How many muscles that are attached to the thumb enable it to do its work?

3. For what does the thumb have to be long enough?

4. What is the hand's optimal position over the keyboard?

5. What do some scientists say practicing a skill using one hand more frequently than the other does?

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