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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Charles Sherrington claim about the tip of the thumb and index finger?
(a) They are unable to feel tiny movements.
(b) They are treated like the sensitive part of the retina.
(c) They are unable to distinguish different types of movement.
(d) They have more nerve endings than the other fingers.

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

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

5. What sport does David participate in during High School?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Wrestling.
(d) Basketball.

6. What is one puzzling concern the author mentions in this chapter?
(a) The hand's ability to move faster than the eye.
(b) The reason some people's hands are proportionately larger than normal.
(c) The hand's ability to be adept at rock-climbing and piano-playing.
(d) The reason some people's hands are proportionately smaller than normal.

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

8. What is the ability to design and manufacture tools considered by Wilson?
(a) A problem-solving strategy.
(b) The way humans evolve.
(c) The only way the brain can solve mechanical problems.
(d) The way to take advantage of the hand's capabilities.

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

10. What is the juggling riddle?
(a) How three balls can be in motion yet one held in the hand at the same time.
(b) How many balls it takes a juggler to feel accomplished.
(c) How a juggler can hold two balls in each hand and juggle two.
(d) Asking riddles while you juggler to demonstrate your expertise.

11. What does Duchenne figure out how to demonstrate?
(a) The way an electrical charge stops movement.
(b) The physiology of movement.
(c) The way a muscle contracts in order to push.
(d) The way a muscle expands in order to pull.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Until recently, how have anthropologists perceived ape and human hands?

2. Why is now known to be important that originally was not thought to be so during early studies?

3. From where does Sherrington discover signals originate to cause movement?

4. What is one term related to the scale of movement required by two hands acting in partnership?

5. What did the brain do when the forelimbs were no longer used to walk?

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