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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is pad-to-side?
(a) A way to practice rock climbing.
(b) One type of grip.
(c) A way of moving the fingers.
(d) A way of rotating the wrist.

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

6. Who is Sir Charles Bell?
(a) The only British doctor who performs surgery even after the loss of one hand.
(b) A famous Scottish composer.
(c) A famous Irish composer.
(d) A Scottish surgeon who is a contemporary of Charles Darwin.

7. 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.

8. What is one thing that demonstrates the integration of movement in the shoulder, arm and hand?
(a) The clenching of the fist.
(b) The rotation of the arm.
(c) The rotation of the palm
(d) The unfolding of the fingers.

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

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

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

12. How long can a grip on a rock last for a climber?
(a) It is incalculable.
(b) Twenty seconds.
(c) Forty seconds.
(d) Several minutes.

13. What does Merlin Donald's theory of cultural and cognitive evolution propose?
(a) The human brain developed in a stop-and-go process.
(b) The human body developed in a three-stage process.
(c) The human brain developed in a three-stage process.
(d) The groupings of tribes developed in a two-stage process.

14. To what was the pre-human arm metaphorically compared?
(a) A fulcrum.
(b) A whooping crane and its beak.
(c) A block and tackle.
(d) A construction crane and its operator.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is one thing the thumb is uniquely able to do?

4. What is one puzzling concern the author mentions in this chapter?

5. What does the coordination of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones do?

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