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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. By what age do children become improvisers who behave with intelligence?
(a) 3.
(b) 11.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

2. How does Broca identify an area in the brain that controls speech?
(a) By examining an MRI in a person who has never been able to speak.
(b) By examining the brain of a stroke patient who is left speechless.
(c) By small electrical charges administered to different areas of the brain.
(d) By a drug that changes the speech area of the brain.

3. How do physicians get patients to take their medicines and follow instructions?
(a) Threatening them.
(b) They have no way to do so.
(c) Giving the instructions to a loved one to supervise.
(d) Encouragement or charm.

4. In what way does Yves Guiard propose both hands perform?
(a) Precisely.
(b) In partnership.
(c) Spontaneously.
(d) In opposition.

5. What is the hand considered in the metaphor in number 26?
(a) The beak.
(b) The block.
(c) The balance beam.
(d) The bucket.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what does the thumb have to be long enough?

3. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?

4. From what does the word neuron derive its meaning?

5. What does "prestidigitation" mean?

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