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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Head for the Hands and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does every society have?
(a) Its ideas about what is important to learn.
(b) Its tools for teaching.
(c) Creative people.
(d) Its rules for learning.

2. What is one of medicine's oldest links?
(a) Magic and its connection with charismatic persuasion.
(b) The Hippocratic oath.
(c) Existence of pathogens.
(d) Medicines.

3. According to Wilson, how many problem-solving strategies are there that stand out above all others?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 0.
(d) 2.

4. For how long has the brain been preadapted for speech?
(a) Over 100,000 years.
(b) For about 10,000 years.
(c) More than a million years.
(d) For about 25,000 years.

5. Upon what does the success of a healing practitioner depend?
(a) The patients' belief in the practitioner.
(b) The extent of the illness.
(c) The availability of a good medical facility.
(d) The availability of the right drugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Broca identify an area in the brain that controls speech?

2. What is a second goal The Educated Mind discusses?

3. What does the Israeli physicist perceive as a sophisticated controller of movement?

4. What does Merlin Donald's theory of cultural and cognitive evolution propose?

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

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