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

2. How does David compensate for his lack of strength?
(a) With his mental and psychological edge.
(b) By competiting with younger wrestlers.
(c) By competiting in a lower weight group.
(d) By cheating.

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

4. What is the strength of a climber's grip on a rock face?
(a) Ups to 120 pound per square inch.
(b) There is no way to calculate that figure.
(c) Up to 80 pounds per square inch.
(d) Up to 50 pounds per square inch.

5. What does the author say comes to life even before you rise out of bed in the morning?
(a) Your dog.
(b) Your brain.
(c) Hands and arms.
(d) Your digestive juices.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is now known to be important that originally was not thought to be so during early studies?

2. What does the author say we are dependent upon that we rarely think about?

3. What sport does David participate in during High School?

4. What is one activity the author mentions that the hand usually does in the morning?

5. What does Charles Sherrington claim about the tip of the thumb and index finger?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does practice after learning do?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did Duchenne demonstrate the physiology of movement?

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

10. Explain the crane metaphor Wilson uses.

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