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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one thing the thumb is uniquely able to do?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Bend at the middle knuckle.
(c) Move independently of any other finger.
(d) Hyperextend.

2. What is one thing that prompted the author to write this book on the hand?
(a) His father getting arthritis and his left hand becoming non-functional.
(b) His trying to learn to play a video game.
(c) His learning to play the piano.
(d) His taking tennis lessons.

3. What is one activity the author mentions that the hand usually does in the morning?
(a) Conducts a symphony.
(b) Twisting a water faucet.
(c) Plays with a football.
(d) Grooms the dog.

4. What does the hand "think" about as it helps you get ready for the day?
(a) How to move each muscle fgr each task.
(b) How to movie each tendon and ligament for each task.
(c) How to grasp something without dropping it.
(d) Nothing.

5. What enables the human to weigh and relate facts to solve problems?
(a) The hands.
(b) The heart.
(c) The soul.
(d) The brain.

6. What does Galvani discover about electrical forces?
(a) They are shorted out by a muscle's contractions.
(b) They are emitted by a muscle's contractions.
(c) They are charged either negative or positive.
(d) The are initiators of action.

7. What does Frederick Wood Jones note about the hand?
(a) It is not as important as the tongue.
(b) It is only as good as the mind wishes it to be.
(c) It is actually the brain in control rather than the hand.
(d) It can be an instrument of good or evil.

8. How does a goat eat a piece of candy?
(a) The wrapper and the candy.
(b) Just the wrapper.
(c) Just the candy.
(d) Sometimes just the wrapper and sometimes just the candy.

9. What is one feature of the human hand that Marzke identifies?
(a) Greater flexibility.
(b) Longer thumb.
(c) Larger knuckles.
(d) Greater range.

10. What is the weight of the touch of a pianist's fingers on the keyboard?
(a) About twelve ounces per square inch.
(b) Less than three ounces per square inch.
(c) About eight ounces per square inch.
(d) About three pounds per square inch.

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

12. From what does the word neuron derive its meaning?
(a) A Slavic word for transmit.
(b) A Slavic word for entangle
(c) A Latin word for cord or fiber.
(d) A Greek word for cord or fiber.

13. How many muscles that are attached to the thumb enable it to do its work?
(a) About six.
(b) Eight or nine.
(c) Twelve or thirteen.
(d) Four.

14. Who is David who is mentioned in this chapter?
(a) An anonymous rock climber.
(b) Wilson's boyhood friend.
(c) Wilson's cousin.
(d) Wilson's brother.

15. What is one term related to the scale of movement required by two hands acting in partnership?
(a) Iconometric.
(b) Macromedian.
(c) Macrometric.
(d) Melometric.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did hominids require in order to expand their range beyond the jungle?

3. According to Charles Sherrington, what is a natural progression?

4. What does Henry Plotkin propose intelligence is?

5. How many fingers does George saw off his right hand by accident?

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