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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Broca identify an area in the brain that controls speech?
(a) By a drug that changes the speech area of the brain.
(b) By small electrical charges administered to different areas of the brain.
(c) By examining the brain of a stroke patient who is left speechless.
(d) By examining an MRI in a person who has never been able to speak.

2. What is one level of communicative movement?
(a) Sitting in a lotus position.
(b) Iconic eye movements.
(c) Lying in a fetal position.
(d) Iconic hand gestures.

3. Who coins the term ChomTur?
(a) Frank Wilson.
(b) Noal Chomsky.
(c) Michael Chyet.
(d) Frederick de Saussure.

4. How is the dominant hand theoretically controlled?
(a) The number of nerve endings in each hand.
(b) Genes.
(c) Use.
(d) They have no concrete evidence as to how it's determined.

5. What often dictates which hand is dominate?
(a) The larger of the two hands tends to be dominent.
(b) Social pressures.
(c) The smaller of the two hands tends to be dominent.
(d) The baby deciding to use one or the other more often.

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

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

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

9. How does black magic differ from white magic regarding a patient's belief?
(a) Black depends on the patient's belief in death.
(b) Black magic does not exist.
(c) White depends on the patient's belief in the goodness of God.
(d) It does not differ.

10. What does William Calvin claim about female apes?
(a) They are the main hunters.
(b) They are often grouped by age.
(c) They fight more than the males.
(d) They nurture less than the males.

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

12. To what does Kathleen Gibson attribute human intelligence?
(a) The ability to interpret abstract ideas.
(b) Opposable thumbs.
(c) Dense brain tissue.
(d) An insatiable curiosity to discover something new.

13. 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) Working as a meal planner in a posh restaurant.
(d) Eating at LuLu's restaurant

14. What does the beginning of this chapter say the hand been used throughout its long history?
(a) To create art.
(b) Only as a tool.
(c) For both social interaction and attention.
(d) As a means of conquering.

15. Who is Anat?
(a) A physics professor.
(b) A neurosurgeon.
(c) A Feldenkrais practitioner.
(d) A physical therapist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What level is the American Sign Language classified as?

2. What skills does Wilson say today's warriors learn?

3. Why don't the ground mammals at this time eat the fruit in the trees?

4. What is an example of a secondary heuristic?

5. What does the Israeli physicist discover?

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