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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. How do physicians get patients to take their medicines and follow instructions?
(a) Giving the instructions to a loved one to supervise.
(b) They have no way to do so.
(c) Encouragement or charm.
(d) Threatening them.

2. What is BachTur?
(a) The way music stimulates the parts of the brain the deal with language.
(b) The way music enables speech.
(c) There is no such term.
(d) The musical equivalent of ChomTur.

3. What does Wilson wonder about his daughter?
(a) If her stuttering was what leads to her abilities as a musician.
(b) If her fingers could move faster over the piano keyboard.
(c) If she can rock climb since she is an accomplished musician.
(d) How she makes her fingers move so fast over the piano keyboard?

4. What does the Israeli physicist desire to do rather than increasing muscle strength in a paralyzed person?
(a) Decrease messag flow to the brain so as not to overwhelm.
(b) Increase pain tolerance levels.
(c) Return message flow from the brain as it was before paralysis.
(d) Increase muscle flexibility.

5. For how long has the brain been preadapted for speech?
(a) Over 100,000 years.
(b) For about 10,000 years.
(c) More than a million years.
(d) For about 25,000 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does the University of New Mexico perform a study about communicative movements?

2. What does right-handed knapping tend to do?

3. What can both humans and primates make?

4. In what way does Yves Guiard propose both hands perform?

5. What can cause reduced bodily movement?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Moshe Feldenkrais and what does he discover?

2. Upon what does early medicine rely?

3. What does the author think about concerning a high school language teacher?

4. What does eating at LuLu teach Wilson?

5. What is one of medicine's oldest links and how does it work?

6. Who is Patricia Greenfield and what does she theorize?

7. Who is Paul Broca and for what is he known?

8. What area of the brain seems to be specialized for language and for how long has this are been adapted for language?

9. What type of therapy is used in many cultures and to what does it go back?

10. What must chefs do to create a meal?

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