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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 Wilson say laboring in the kitchen takes?
(a) Strong emotional health.
(b) The ability to distinguish among subtle flavors.
(c) Strong physical stamina.
(d) The ability to ignore heat.

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

3. How many features of the human hand does Mary Marzke identify?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

4. What is one thing that prompted the author to write this book on the hand?
(a) His trying to learn to play a video game.
(b) His taking tennis lessons.
(c) His father getting arthritis and his left hand becoming non-functional.
(d) His learning to play the piano.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what did early medicine rely for healing?

2. Who is David who is mentioned in this chapter?

3. Until recently, how have anthropologists perceived ape and human hands?

4. What is ChomTur?

5. Why was Serge Percelly told he had the eye for tennis?

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