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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. To what do marionettes exhibit similarities?
(a) Block and tackles.
(b) The way a wedge works.
(c) Leverage.
(d) The human muscle and tendon configuration in arms and legs.

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. What is the other main reason the author writes this book on the hand?
(a) His work as a neurologist.
(b) His work as a orthopedic doctor.
(c) His work as a painter.
(d) His work as an art teacher.

10. According to Charles Sherrington, what is a natural progression?
(a) The learning of motor skills.
(b) Using intent.
(c) Juggling with increasing number of objects.
(d) The learning of focus.

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

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

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

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

15. What does the author say comes to life even before you rise out of bed in the morning?
(a) Hands and arms.
(b) Your dog.
(c) Your brain.
(d) Your digestive juices.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many features of the human hand does Mary Marzke identify?

2. How many key strokes per second can a pianist reach?

3. Who is Sir Charles Bell?

4. How does John Napier identify the terms "power grip" and "precision grip"?

5. What supports the conscious dimension of action?

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