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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is aphasia?
(a) A way of charting the areas of the brain.
(b) A motor impairment that affects the hand.
(c) A language impairment.
(d) A disease that limits the function of the medulla.

2. To what is Franz Liszt compared?
(a) Rodin.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Mozart's ability to create music at a very early age.
(d) Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest.

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

4. How does Greenfield say she knows how a child will solve Greenfield's stick puzzle?
(a) By knowing if the child can read.
(b) By knowing the child's age.
(c) By observing which foot the child starts out on when walking.
(d) By observing which thumb is larger.

5. What does right-handed knapping tend to do?
(a) Makes the left hand atrophy.
(b) Makes the knapper more proficient with both hands.
(c) Produce more flakes than left-handed knapping.
(d) Makes the knapper more create in how s/he makes the tool.

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

7. What type of intelligence does Patricia Greenfield study?
(a) Patricia Greenfield studies human intelligence as it unfolds in adult behavior over twenty year.s
(b) Physiological intelligence.
(c) Coordination intelligence.
(d) Patricia Greenfield studies human intelligence as it unfolds in child behavior twenty years earlier.

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

9. To whom does Wilson refer for information on heuristics of language and music?
(a) Plotkin and Donald.
(b) George Polya.
(c) Rolf Molich.
(d) Chomsky.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of medicine's oldest links?

2. What helps the high school teacher?

3. What distinguishes a proficient surgeon from a mediocre one?

4. What develops early in the brain of a child?

5. What can can restore feeling to one who has lost a sense of connection with their body and enable movement again?

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