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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What develops early in the brain of a child?
(a) The ability to distinguish tones.
(b) Musical talent or heuristic.
(c) Complex speech patterns.
(d) Rhythm.

2. What can both humans and primates make?
(a) Pods.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Maps.
(d) Complex tools.

3. To what do writing and drawing relate?
(a) Thinking.
(b) Seeing and hearing.
(c) Touch and sight.
(d) Many other skills using small tools.

4. Upon what does the success of a healing practitioner depend?
(a) The availability of a good medical facility.
(b) The availability of the right drugs.
(c) The patients' belief in the practitioner.
(d) The extent of the illness.

5. What does Wilson say is not genetic?
(a) The ability to sing.
(b) The ability to learn languages.
(c) The ability to hear tone.
(d) Musical talent.

6. How does Wilson learn that cooking is a specific skill using hands to produce an immediate sense of achievement?
(a) Working as a sous chef.
(b) Talking with Reed.
(c) Working as a meal planner in a posh restaurant.
(d) Eating at LuLu's restaurant

7. Who is the author of Awareness Through Movement?
(a) Frank Wilson.
(b) It was an anonymous publication.
(c) Jonathon Fleishman.
(d) Moshe Feldenkrais.

8. According to Chomsky, how many brain tasks are required for speaking language?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

9. What do some scientists say practicing a skill using one hand more frequently than the other does?
(a) Makes them better at that skill with that hand.
(b) Causes a chemical inbalance.
(c) Creates a uneven situation that's difficult to correct.
(d) Creates an unbalance in the brain.

10. What does Jack Schaefer do?
(a) Is a photographer.
(b) Operates a frame shop.
(c) Builds homes.
(d) Designs engines.

11. What is sometimes attributed to intelligence or gender?
(a) Which hand one uses as the dominent hand.
(b) The uses to which one puts the hand.
(c) Good penmanship.
(d) Coordination.

12. What must the magician do for success?
(a) Create an illusion.
(b) Create confidence.
(c) Create disillusionment.
(d) Create trust.

13. What do some people claim is not biologically relevant?
(a) Music.
(b) Art.
(c) Sex.
(d) Language.

14. What is one of medicine's oldest links?
(a) The Hippocratic oath.
(b) Magic and its connection with charismatic persuasion.
(c) Medicines.
(d) Existence of pathogens.

15. What is a polylith?
(a) An object made completely of fibers.
(b) A drawing that is three dimensional.
(c) A drawing with several layers.
(d) An object made of joined units or subassemblies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of intelligence does Patricia Greenfield study?

2. What do both knapping and rock climbing require?

3. Who must suspend their disbelief?

4. What area of the brain do scientists believe is specialized for language?

5. What does the beginning of this chapter say the hand been used throughout its long history?

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