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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 is one puzzling concern the author mentions in this chapter?
(a) The reason some people's hands are proportionately smaller than normal.
(b) The reason some people's hands are proportionately larger than normal.
(c) The hand's ability to move faster than the eye.
(d) The hand's ability to be adept at rock-climbing and piano-playing.

2. How long can a grip on a rock last for a climber?
(a) Several minutes.
(b) Forty seconds.
(c) It is incalculable.
(d) Twenty seconds.

3. To what is Franz Liszt compared?
(a) Mozart's ability to create music at a very early age.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Rodin.
(d) Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest.

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

5. Until recently, how have anthropologists perceived ape and human hands?
(a) As functionally equivalent.
(b) As functionally very different.
(c) As structurally radically different.
(d) As structurally equivalent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do great pianists no precede?

2. By what age do children become improvisers who behave with intelligence?

3. Upon what did early medicine rely for healing?

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

5. What is the strength of a climber's grip on a rock face?

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