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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 type of intelligence does Patricia Greenfield study?
(a) Patricia Greenfield studies human intelligence as it unfolds in adult behavior over twenty year.s
(b) Patricia Greenfield studies human intelligence as it unfolds in child behavior twenty years earlier.
(c) Physiological intelligence.
(d) Coordination intelligence.

2. What does "prestidigitation" mean?
(a) Quick fingers.
(b) Digital manipulation.
(c) Prehensile thumbs.
(d) Long fingers.

3. According to Wilson, why do children not usually enjoy doing juggling?
(a) They do not the the necessary concentration.
(b) They do not have the necessary physical stamina.
(c) They do not have the necessary hand-eye coordination.
(d) They are too easily bored with trying to learn it.

4. Where in Europe does Wilson take his interest in the performance problems of musicians?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) Spain.

5. What is one very important problem-solving strategy?
(a) Language.
(b) Creating tribes.
(c) Organizing.
(d) Farming.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one thing that shoulder and forearm development enabled?

3. What is the other main reason the author writes this book on the hand?

4. Upon what does the success of a healing practitioner depend?

5. What does the coordination of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones do?

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