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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 long can a grip on a rock last for a climber?
(a) Several minutes.
(b) Forty seconds.
(c) It is incalculable.
(d) Twenty seconds.

2. How does Broca identify an area in the brain that controls speech?
(a) By examining an MRI in a person who has never been able to speak.
(b) By small electrical charges administered to different areas of the brain.
(c) By examining the brain of a stroke patient who is left speechless.
(d) By a drug that changes the speech area of the brain.

3. Why does Calvin think the female ape cradles her baby in its left arm?
(a) He has no idea.
(b) It tends to be the stronger arm.
(c) So the baby can hear the mother's heartbeat.
(d) It tends to be the longer arm.

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

5. To what does Kathleen Gibson attribute human intelligence?
(a) The ability to interpret abstract ideas.
(b) An insatiable curiosity to discover something new.
(c) Dense brain tissue.
(d) Opposable thumbs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What area of the brain do scientists believe is specialized for language?

3. What does Frederick Wood Jones note about the hand?

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

5. By what age do children become improvisers who behave with intelligence?

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