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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Lucy and her descendants get used to doing?
(a) Planting.
(b) Fasting.
(c) Competiting for food on the savannahs.
(d) Climbing.

2. What do Haeckel, Reynolds and Dunbar confirm?
(a) Children become problem solvers even before they can talk.
(b) Apes and children have a very different evolutionary process from about six months on.
(c) Children become improvisers before they can even talk.
(d) Aspects of the evolutionary process perceived in Greenfield's theory.

3. What does the Israeli physicist discover?
(a) Quarks move faster when someone thinks about their doing so.
(b) Some movements are mimicked on the micro level.
(c) Quarks are not in this dimension.
(d) Certain movements can lead a person with practice to move more smoothly and efficiently.

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

5. What can can restore feeling to one who has lost a sense of connection with their body and enable movement again?
(a) Visualization.
(b) Regeneration of nerve cells.
(c) The awareness of the effect of the brain on controlling movement.
(d) Small jolts of electricity to muscles.

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

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

8. What does Wilson say is an emotional experience?
(a) Learning a new skill.
(b) Interacting with an aclaimed chef.
(c) Completing a perfect, nine-course meal.
(d) Food.

9. What do both knapping and rock climbing require?
(a) Just relaxations.
(b) Just contractions.
(c) Contractions and relaxations.
(d) Smooth and non-smooth muscles.

10. In what way does Yves Guiard propose both hands perform?
(a) In partnership.
(b) Precisely.
(c) Spontaneously.
(d) In opposition.

11. Who must suspend their disbelief?
(a) The patient.
(b) No one.
(c) The doctor.
(d) The Shamen.

12. What skills does Wilson say today's warriors learn?
(a) Hunting and gathering.
(b) Fishing and hunting.
(c) Those needed to wield skillets, pots and pans after chopping and slicing in kitchens.
(d) Hunting.

13. By what age do most young children begin to make sentences?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 6 months.

14. What level is the American Sign Language classified as?
(a) The first level.
(b) The sixth level.
(c) The fourth level.
(d) It is not considered.

15. What is BachTur?
(a) The way music enables speech.
(b) The musical equivalent of ChomTur.
(c) There is no such term.
(d) The way music stimulates the parts of the brain the deal with language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing today's chef must have?

2. With whom does the University of New Mexico perform a study about communicative movements?

3. What is a second language requirement?

4. Who is Anat?

5. What is a "laterality quotient"?

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