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

2. What is one thing today's chef must have?
(a) Dedication.
(b) The skills of a warrior.
(c) A good nose for smelling.
(d) Discretion.

3. Who is an Israeli physicist mentioned in this chapter?
(a) Jonathon Fleishman.
(b) Abraham Disera.
(c) Moshe Feldenkrais.
(d) David Golems.

4. To what do writing and drawing relate?
(a) Seeing and hearing.
(b) Touch and sight.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Many other skills using small tools.

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

6. What does Jack Schaefer do?
(a) Designs engines.
(b) Is a photographer.
(c) Operates a frame shop.
(d) Builds homes.

7. 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) Working as a sous chef.
(c) Talking with Reed.
(d) Eating at LuLu's restaurant

8. What does "prestidigitation" mean?
(a) Quick fingers.
(b) Prehensile thumbs.
(c) Digital manipulation.
(d) Long fingers.

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

10. 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 the child's age.
(c) By observing which foot the child starts out on when walking.
(d) By knowing if the child can read.

11. What is a consistent practice common to Feldenkrais and other methods of healing?
(a) The use of heat.
(b) Visualizing.
(c) The use of the hands.
(d) Using medicine.

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

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

14. 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.

15. What do both knapping and rock climbing require?
(a) Just relaxations.
(b) Just contractions.
(c) Contractions and relaxations.
(d) Smooth and non-smooth muscles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does William Calvin claim about female apes?

2. What is BachTur?

3. With whom does the University of New Mexico perform a study about communicative movements?

4. How does Broca identify an area in the brain that controls speech?

5. What do some people claim is not biologically relevant?

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