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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On the other hand, why might juggling have a use?
(a) It involves the complementary processes of throwing and catching.
(b) The balls can be thrown at a robber.
(c) It can give you aerobic exercise if you do it vigorously.
(d) It can earn money on the street corner.

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

4. What do Haeckel, Reynolds and Dunbar confirm?
(a) Aspects of the evolutionary process perceived in Greenfield's theory.
(b) Children become improvisers before they can even talk.
(c) Children become problem solvers even before they can talk.
(d) Apes and children have a very different evolutionary process from about six months on.

5. Up until a certain point, what separated the human hand from that of the ape's hand?
(a) The texture.
(b) The number of digits.
(c) The thumb.
(d) The size.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one activity the author mentions that the hand usually does in the morning?

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

3. Where in Europe does Wilson take his interest in the performance problems of musicians?

4. What rule does Greenfield propose?

5. What type of intelligence does Patricia Greenfield study?

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