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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How many Feldenkrais sessions does it take to effect a change in a woman with torsion dystonia?
(a) 1.
(b) 12.
(c) 9.
(d) 3.

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

7. What rule does Greenfield propose?
(a) A rule that illustrates how a child can sometimes change hand dominence.
(b) A rule that illustrates how an adult can sometimes change hand dominence.
(c) A hierarchical rule generator.
(d) A rule that a person uses to decide what skills to develop.

8. What is a "laterality quotient"?
(a) A way to decide if one hand will perform a task or the other.
(b) A spectrum of use.
(c) A quotient the brain evolves to determine dominance.
(d) A spectrum of handedness.

9. What does Peter Reynolds spend years doing in New Guinea?
(a) Studying the ancient artifacts of the extinct culture.
(b) Observing chimpanzees.
(c) Observing gorillas.
(d) Observing young baboons.

10. What is ChomTur?
(a) The term for specialized control mechanisms of language.
(b) A term for specialized control mechanisms of thought.
(c) A rubric for studying speech patterns.
(d) A rubric for studying brain wave patterns.

11. How many years ago did changes in global climate initiate an ecosystem of fruits and flowers?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 65 million.
(c) 1.5 million.
(d) 50 thousand.

12. How do physicians get patients to take their medicines and follow instructions?
(a) Threatening them.
(b) They have no way to do so.
(c) Giving the instructions to a loved one to supervise.
(d) Encouragement or charm.

13. What did ground mammals eat at this time?
(a) Mostly nuts and grass.
(b) Mostly birds.
(c) Just small rodents.
(d) Vegetarian matter or carnivores.

14. What does Wilson wonder about his daughter?
(a) If her fingers could move faster over the piano keyboard.
(b) If her stuttering was what leads to her abilities as a musician.
(c) How she makes her fingers move so fast over the piano keyboard?
(d) If she can rock climb since she is an accomplished musician.

15. For how long has the brain been preadapted for speech?
(a) For about 25,000 years.
(b) More than a million years.
(c) For about 10,000 years.
(d) Over 100,000 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is Franz Liszt compared?

2. By what age do most young children begin to make sentences?

3. What is a consistent practice common to Feldenkrais and other methods of healing?

4. What is an example of a secondary heuristic?

5. What is Jack restoring?

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