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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. According to Charles Sherrington, what are sensors to the target object?
(a) The retina and fingertips.
(b) The palm and the nerves in the cerebral cortex.
(c) The retina and the palm.
(d) The fngertips and the palm.

2. What is one thing that shoulder and forearm development enabled?
(a) The ability to hunt.
(b) The ability to catch objects.
(c) The ability to carve.
(d) The ability to throw objects.

3. What do Lucy and her descendants get used to doing?
(a) Fasting.
(b) Competiting for food on the savannahs.
(c) Planting.
(d) Climbing.

4. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?
(a) The ability to play a sport.
(b) The buoyancy of the body.
(c) The speed at which the body can move.
(d) The center of gravity.

5. What is the other main reason the author writes this book on the hand?
(a) His work as a orthopedic doctor.
(b) His work as a painter.
(c) His work as an art teacher.
(d) His work as a neurologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Charles Sherrington, what is a natural progression?

2. What can proceed in the presence of fundamental and comparatively simple conditions?

3. With whom does the University of New Mexico perform a study about communicative movements?

4. What is one level of communicative movement?

5. What does Wilson wonder about his daughter?

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