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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. With whom does the University of New Mexico perform a study about communicative movements?
(a) UCLA.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Gallaudet University.

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

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

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

7. Who coins the term ChomTur?
(a) Frederick de Saussure.
(b) Michael Chyet.
(c) Noal Chomsky.
(d) Frank Wilson.

8. What does the Israeli physicist discover?
(a) Some movements are mimicked on the micro level.
(b) Certain movements can lead a person with practice to move more smoothly and efficiently.
(c) Quarks are not in this dimension.
(d) Quarks move faster when someone thinks about their doing so.

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

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

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

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

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

14. To what is primate grooming connected?
(a) Human grooming.
(b) Learning dexterity.
(c) Hands-on therapy.
(d) Learning ways to use the hands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one level of communicative movement?

2. What is BachTur?

3. What do great pianists no precede?

4. How many years ago did changes in global climate initiate an ecosystem of fruits and flowers?

5. How is the dominant hand theoretically controlled?

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