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

2. Who wrote The Educated Mind?
(a) Moshe Feldenkrais.
(b) Kieran Egan.
(c) John Jessup.
(d) Frank Wilson.

3. What do some people claim is not biologically relevant?
(a) Sex.
(b) Language.
(c) Music.
(d) Art.

4. What helps maintain a skill that is learned?
(a) Practice.
(b) Nothing; once it's learned it is always available.
(c) Visualizing the skill daily.
(d) The memory portion of the brain.

5. What is incompatible with institutional education?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Learning to think independently.
(c) Fostering creativity.
(d) Achieving the goals listed in The Educated Mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What enables the human to weigh and relate facts to solve problems?

2. What does Duchenne figure out how to demonstrate?

3. To what is Franz Liszt compared?

4. What does the author attempt to do that is not a well-orchestrated pattern of learning from simple to more complex?

5. Who says that the hand and brain both speak to each other?

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