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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is now known to be important that originally was not thought to be so during early studies?
(a) Length of digits.
(b) Flexibility.
(c) The thumb.
(d) Strength.

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

4. What does the author say is a choreographed skill?
(a) Making sure a person performs all their morning abulations.
(b) The way the hand performs thousands of activities.
(c) Making breakfast while on the phone and reading the newspaper.
(d) Getting the children ready for school while planning your day at the office.

5. Who is Robin Dunbar?
(a) A professor of biology.
(b) A professor of anthropology.
(c) A professor of archeology.
(d) A professor of genealogy.

6. What is the hand's optimal position over the keyboard?
(a) A gentle curve.
(b) With the palm slightly convex.
(c) With the fingers spread as far as possible.
(d) With the fingers fairly rigid.

7. What does Charles Bell say practice enables?
(a) The juggler to talk and juggle at the same time.
(b) The juggler to manage a dozen or more objects.
(c) The hand and eye to develop as sense organs.
(d) The juggler to juggle and chew gum at the same time.

8. According to Wilson, what did the expansion of territory by hominids require?
(a) Equality of the sexes.
(b) Good leadership.
(c) Group cooperation.
(d) Inequality of the sexes.

9. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?
(a) The buoyancy of the body.
(b) The center of gravity.
(c) The speed at which the body can move.
(d) The ability to play a sport.

10. What does Herophilus discover?
(a) Neurons cannot regenerate.
(b) The muscles along the spinal cord are denser because of the neurons packed in them.
(c) Some neurons connect muscles to the spinal cord; whereas, other connect muscles to bone.
(d) Neurons can regenerate.

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

12. How does David compensate for his lack of strength?
(a) By competiting in a lower weight group.
(b) By cheating.
(c) With his mental and psychological edge.
(d) By competiting with younger wrestlers.

13. What did the brain do when the forelimbs were no longer used to walk?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Developed other means of walking on all fours.
(c) Made them functional in other areas.
(d) Retrained itself not to use them for walking

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

15. How does John Napier identify the terms "power grip" and "precision grip"?
(a) He does not distinguish between the two.
(b) "Prehensile" and "non-prehensile."
(c) Climber and piano player.
(d) Wrestler and soccer goalie.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the other hand, why might juggling have a use?

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

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

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

5. What is pad-to-side?

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