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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 one thing that prompted the author to write this book on the hand?
(a) His taking tennis lessons.
(b) His father getting arthritis and his left hand becoming non-functional.
(c) His trying to learn to play a video game.
(d) His learning to play the piano.

2. What does Merlin Donald's theory of cultural and cognitive evolution propose?
(a) The human body developed in a three-stage process.
(b) The human brain developed in a stop-and-go process.
(c) The groupings of tribes developed in a two-stage process.
(d) The human brain developed in a three-stage process.

3. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?
(a) The ability to play a sport.
(b) The speed at which the body can move.
(c) The buoyancy of the body.
(d) The center of gravity.

4. How does a goat eat a piece of candy?
(a) Sometimes just the wrapper and sometimes just the candy.
(b) Just the wrapper.
(c) Just the candy.
(d) The wrapper and the candy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does David control the horses he raises?

2. What is paleoanthropology?

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

4. According to Charles Sherrington, what is a natural progression?

5. What does Charles Bell say practice enables?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two terms does Duchenne propose for the scale of movement required by two hands acting in partnership?

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

3. What does Mary Marzke classify and how does she do so?

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

5. Who is Robin Dunbar and what does he propose?

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

7. What is the connection between marionettes and the human muscle and tendon configuration in the arms and legs?

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

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

10. What did Herophilus and Galen discover?

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