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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 critical significance of the paddle in Duchenne's model?
(a) It allows for greater rotation.
(b) It leaves one muscle group balanced.
(c) It leaves one muscle group unbalanced.
(d) It sends simultaneous signals that result in the interplay of movement.

2. Who is David who is mentioned in this chapter?
(a) Wilson's boyhood friend.
(b) Wilson's brother.
(c) Wilson's cousin.
(d) An anonymous rock climber.

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

4. What does the coordination of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones do?
(a) Forms a synergistic system.
(b) It orients the arm and hand to make adjusting and tension-setting movements that keep the body upright.
(c) Creates a system of interrelated functions.
(d) Creates tensions to enable movement.

5. How many types of grips does Mary Marzke classify?
(a) 3.
(b) 15.
(c) 1.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. Until recently, how have anthropologists perceived ape and human hands?

2. What is one term related to the scale of movement required by two hands acting in partnership?

3. Where does the hand's optimal strength lie when rock climbing?

4. What is the other main reason the author writes this book on the hand?

5. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Duchenne demonstrate the physiology of movement?

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

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

6. Explain the crane metaphor Wilson uses.

7. Who is David and how is he able to succeed at wrestling despite not being very strong?

8. What do humans need to move out of the jungle?

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

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

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