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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. How do physicians get patients to take their medicines and follow instructions?
(a) They have no way to do so.
(b) Threatening them.
(c) Encouragement or charm.
(d) Giving the instructions to a loved one to supervise.

2. How does the conscious dimension of action occur?
(a) With the thought of moving.
(b) There is no conscious dimension of action.
(c) With the movement itself.
(d) With the unconscious thought first.

3. What does Galen discover?
(a) Ligaments pull muscles in the same direction for pulling and in opposite directions for pushing
(b) Pairs of muscles must pull in the same direction for action.
(c) Pairs of muscles are required to pull against each other for action.
(d) Muscles cannot pull without ligaments acting in opposition.

4. What area of the brain do scientists believe is specialized for language?
(a) The cerebellum.
(b) The right brain hemisphere.
(c) The left brain hemisphere.
(d) The frontal lobe.

5. 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 observing which thumb is larger.
(d) By knowing if the child can read.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "prestidigitation" mean?

2. To what do writing and drawing relate?

3. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?

4. What does the author say comes to life even before you rise out of bed in the morning?

5. What did ground mammals eat at this time?

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