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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What area of the brain do scientists believe is specialized for language?
(a) The right brain hemisphere.
(b) The frontal lobe.
(c) The left brain hemisphere.
(d) The cerebellum.

4. How many levels does the continuum of communicative movements have?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 1.

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

6. What do great pianists no precede?
(a) The invention of the piano.
(b) Art.
(c) Human language.
(d) Music.

7. By what age do children become improvisers who behave with intelligence?
(a) 5.
(b) 11.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Reynolds do in Australia?
(a) Study the kangeroo.
(b) Observe how the aborigines interact with the white people.
(c) Study the koala.
(d) Study the aborigines.

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

14. What is another thing today's chef must have?
(a) The joy of a newborn baby.
(b) The aesthetics of a poet.
(c) The curiosity of a cat.
(d) The heart of a lion.

15. What distinguishes a proficient surgeon from a mediocre one?
(a) Where one trains.
(b) Analysis and perceptual organization.
(c) Manual dexterity.
(d) I. Q

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Feldenkrais facilitate?

3. What does William Calvin claim about female apes?

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

5. What rule does Greenfield propose?

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