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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the strength of a climber's grip on a rock face?
(a) Ups to 120 pound per square inch.
(b) Up to 50 pounds per square inch.
(c) There is no way to calculate that figure.
(d) Up to 80 pounds per square inch.

2. On the other hand, why might juggling have a use?
(a) It involves the complementary processes of throwing and catching.
(b) The balls can be thrown at a robber.
(c) It can earn money on the street corner.
(d) It can give you aerobic exercise if you do it vigorously.

3. What does juggling as learned and performed by Percelly provide?
(a) A way to become a professional tennis player.
(b) An entertaining dimension to understanding the mind-body dichotomy.
(c) A way to have fun in becoming a better tennis player.
(d) Good daily exercise.

4. From where does Sherrington discover signals originate to cause movement?
(a) The brain.
(b) The blood.
(c) The muscle itself.
(d) The spinal cord.

5. What is one puzzling concern the author mentions in this chapter?
(a) The hand's ability to be adept at rock-climbing and piano-playing.
(b) The reason some people's hands are proportionately larger than normal.
(c) The reason some people's hands are proportionately smaller than normal.
(d) The hand's ability to move faster than the eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles Bell say practice enables?

2. What supports the conscious dimension of action?

3. What is one thing that demonstrates the integration of movement in the shoulder, arm and hand?

4. What type of control does a human or ape exert over its arm to execute a move?

5. How does David control the horses he raises?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Wilson's "mission" with this book?

2. How were the ape and human hands compared anatomically until recently?

3. What aspects of the human capacity for passionate, creative work does Wilson illustrate?

4. What did Herophilus and Galen discover?

5. What puzzles Frank Wilson about rock climbing and piano playing? Why?

6. What does Wilson propose as the juggling riddle, and why do children not aspire to juggle?

7. Who is George, and what does Wilson say about him?

8. Who is Merlin Donald and what does he propose?

9. What has to happen in order for the thumb to be useful?

10. What are the eight features of the human hand according to Mary Marzke?

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