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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. Who is Robin Dunbar?
(a) A professor of anthropology.
(b) A professor of archeology.
(c) A professor of genealogy.
(d) A professor of biology.

2. How many fingers does George saw off his right hand by accident?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

3. What is one activity the author mentions that the hand usually does in the morning?
(a) Plays with a football.
(b) Conducts a symphony.
(c) Grooms the dog.
(d) Twisting a water faucet.

4. What is one thing that demonstrates the integration of movement in the shoulder, arm and hand?
(a) The rotation of the arm.
(b) The clenching of the fist.
(c) The unfolding of the fingers.
(d) The rotation of the palm

5. Who says that the hand and brain both speak to each other?
(a) Merlin Donald.
(b) Robertson Davies.
(c) Henry Plotkin.
(d) Frank Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the brain do when the forelimbs were no longer used to walk?

2. How long can a grip on a rock last for a climber?

3. What helps maintain a skill that is learned?

4. What is one thing that shoulder and forearm development enabled?

5. What does Rene Decartes think fluid in the eye does?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the addition and transport of weight to the body cause?

2. Explain the crane metaphor Wilson uses.

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

4. What does Wilson say about our hands and feet as we are about to waken and right after?

5. What did Herophilus and Galen discover?

6. What does Wilson say about juggling as a pastime?

7. What are Australopithecines and what is an example of one?

8. How is the arm different from the leg in how it is attached to the body, and which parts of the upper body corresponds to the "folding crane"?

9. What does Charles Bell believe about practice?

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

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