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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 other main reason the author writes this book on the hand?
(a) His work as an art teacher.
(b) His work as a orthopedic doctor.
(c) His work as a neurologist.
(d) His work as a painter.

2. Who describes the hand as the "consummation of all perfection as an instrument"?
(a) Issac Newton.
(b) Sir Francis Hemmington.
(c) Francis Bacon.
(d) Sir Charles Bell.

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

4. What does the neocortex size reliably predict?
(a) Group size.
(b) Evolution rate.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Aggressiveness.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is pad-to-side?

3. What is the juggling riddle?

4. How many muscles that are attached to the thumb enable it to do its work?

5. What does Henry Plotkin propose intelligence is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the arm different from the leg in how it is attached to the body, and which parts of the upper body corresponds to the "folding crane"?

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

4. How did Duchenne demonstrate the physiology of movement?

5. What does the addition and transport of weight to the body cause?

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

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

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

9. What did Herophilus and Galen discover?

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

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