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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) Move independently of any other finger.
(b) Bend at the middle knuckle.
(c) Hyperextend.
(d) Nothing.

2. What does the coordination of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones do?
(a) Creates tensions to enable movement.
(b) Creates a system of interrelated functions.
(c) It orients the arm and hand to make adjusting and tension-setting movements that keep the body upright.
(d) Forms a synergistic system.

3. What is the purpose of the shoulder, arm and hand in being fully integrated?
(a) To provide more leverage together.
(b) To act as a fulcrum.
(c) To function simultaneously as one.
(d) To work in tandem.

4. Who describes the hand as the "consummation of all perfection as an instrument"?
(a) Issac Newton.
(b) Francis Bacon.
(c) Sir Charles Bell.
(d) Sir Francis Hemmington.

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

6. Up until a certain point, what separated the human hand from that of the ape's hand?
(a) The texture.
(b) The number of digits.
(c) The thumb.
(d) The size.

7. What is the strength of a climber's grip on a rock face?
(a) Ups to 120 pound per square inch.
(b) Up to 80 pounds per square inch.
(c) There is no way to calculate that figure.
(d) Up to 50 pounds per square inch.

8. What is one thing that shoulder and forearm development enabled?
(a) The ability to throw objects.
(b) The ability to carve.
(c) The ability to catch objects.
(d) The ability to hunt.

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

10. What does juggling as learned and performed by Percelly provide?
(a) A way to have fun in becoming a better tennis player.
(b) An entertaining dimension to understanding the mind-body dichotomy.
(c) Good daily exercise.
(d) A way to become a professional tennis player.

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

12. How does the brain teach itself in order to juggle?
(a) By learning how to trigger individual muscles rather than groups of muscles.
(b) By learning how to trigger groups of muscles rather than individual muscles.
(c) By requiring the juggler to repeat a motion over and over.
(d) By making the brain and hand work together.

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

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

15. What operator has to do to anticipate load weight and wind changes?
(a) A grain elevator operator.
(b) An elevator operator.
(c) A crane operator.
(d) A bulldozer operator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing that prompted the author to write this book on the hand?

2. What type of control does a human or ape exert over its arm to execute a move?

3. What is the hand's optimal position over the keyboard?

4. What is one very important problem-solving strategy?

5. What is the weight of the touch of a pianist's fingers on the keyboard?

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