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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 does Galen discover?
(a) Ligaments pull muscles in the same direction for pulling and in opposite directions for pushing
(b) Pairs of muscles must pull in the same direction for action.
(c) Pairs of muscles are required to pull against each other for action.
(d) Muscles cannot pull without ligaments acting in opposition.

2. What does the author attempt to do that is not a well-orchestrated pattern of learning from simple to more complex?
(a) Playing the piano.
(b) Brain surgery.
(c) Build a model airplane.
(d) Playing the saxophone.

3. According to Wilson, what did the expansion of territory by hominids require?
(a) Equality of the sexes.
(b) Inequality of the sexes.
(c) Group cooperation.
(d) Good leadership.

4. What is the purpose of the shoulder, arm and hand in being fully integrated?
(a) To work in tandem.
(b) To function simultaneously as one.
(c) To act as a fulcrum.
(d) To provide more leverage together.

5. What does the author say we are dependent upon that we rarely think about?
(a) Our appointment books.
(b) Our hands.
(c) Our food.
(d) Our interaction with others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Galvani discover about electrical forces?

2. How does the brain teach itself in order to juggle?

3. Where in Europe does Wilson take his interest in the performance problems of musicians?

4. How many features of the human hand does Mary Marzke identify?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the crane metaphor Wilson uses.

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

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

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

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

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

7. According to Wilson, what are the two problem-solving strategies that stand out?

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

9. What did Herophilus and Galen discover?

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

(see the answer keys)

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