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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a second language requirement?
(a) The ability to put words together in a chain or cluster.
(b) The ability to hear.
(c) The ability of the brain to understand the connection between concrete objects and their abstract names.
(d) The ability to form the tongue into vowel shapes.

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

3. What does Wilson say laboring in the kitchen takes?
(a) The ability to ignore heat.
(b) The ability to distinguish among subtle flavors.
(c) Strong emotional health.
(d) Strong physical stamina.

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

5. What are developed rather than existing from birth?
(a) Talent and language skills.
(b) Human intelligence, talent and skill.
(c) Human intelligence and ability to think.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

11. Why does Calvin think the female ape cradles her baby in its left arm?
(a) He has no idea.
(b) It tends to be the longer arm.
(c) So the baby can hear the mother's heartbeat.
(d) It tends to be the stronger arm.

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

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

14. What does the Israeli physicist perceive as a sophisticated controller of movement?
(a) The heart.
(b) Electricity.
(c) The brain.
(d) Amino acids.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What often dictates which hand is dominate?

2. Why does the high school language teacher quit teaching?

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

4. What does Jack Schaefer do?

5. What does the Israeli physicist desire to do rather than increasing muscle strength in a paralyzed person?

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