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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 term related to the scale of movement required by two hands acting in partnership?
(a) Melometric.
(b) Macrometric.
(c) Iconometric.
(d) Macromedian.

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

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

4. According to Charles Sherrington, what is a natural progression?
(a) Using intent.
(b) Juggling with increasing number of objects.
(c) The learning of focus.
(d) The learning of motor skills.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem causes the author to reach a turning point in his thinking about the hand?

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

3. What does juggling as learned and performed by Percelly provide?

4. Why was Serge Percelly told he had the eye for tennis?

5. What is one puzzling concern the author mentions in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Duchenne demonstrate the physiology of movement?

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