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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What can can restore feeling to one who has lost a sense of connection with their body and enable movement again?
(a) The awareness of the effect of the brain on controlling movement.
(b) Regeneration of nerve cells.
(c) Small jolts of electricity to muscles.
(d) Visualization.

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

4. How does Wilson learn that cooking is a specific skill using hands to produce an immediate sense of achievement?
(a) Working as a meal planner in a posh restaurant.
(b) Eating at LuLu's restaurant
(c) Working as a sous chef.
(d) Talking with Reed.

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

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

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

8. What develops early in the brain of a child?
(a) Rhythm.
(b) Musical talent or heuristic.
(c) The ability to distinguish tones.
(d) Complex speech patterns.

9. Why don't the ground mammals at this time eat the fruit in the trees?
(a) They have plenty on the ground without caring about climbing up above.
(b) They are too heavy to climb the tree.
(c) They are mostly carnivorous.
(d) They do eat the tree fruits.

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

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

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

13. What level is the American Sign Language classified as?
(a) It is not considered.
(b) The sixth level.
(c) The fourth level.
(d) The first level.

14. Who is Reed Hearon?
(a) Wilson's co-writer.
(b) The owner of LuLu's restaurant.
(c) The most famous chef in the United States.
(d) A math professor at Yale.

15. What can both humans and primates make?
(a) Maps.
(b) Complex tools.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Pods.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What can cause reduced bodily movement?

3. Who must suspend their disbelief?

4. Who coins the term ChomTur?

5. Who is Anat?

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