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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. Who is Reed Hearon?
(a) The most famous chef in the United States.
(b) The owner of LuLu's restaurant.
(c) Wilson's co-writer.
(d) A math professor at Yale.

2. What is one level of communicative movement?
(a) Sitting in a lotus position.
(b) Iconic hand gestures.
(c) Iconic eye movements.
(d) Lying in a fetal position.

3. How many years ago did changes in global climate initiate an ecosystem of fruits and flowers?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 65 million.
(c) 1.5 million.
(d) 50 thousand.

4. What do some scientists say practicing a skill using one hand more frequently than the other does?
(a) Makes them better at that skill with that hand.
(b) Creates an unbalance in the brain.
(c) Creates a uneven situation that's difficult to correct.
(d) Causes a chemical inbalance.

5. Who is Anat?
(a) A Feldenkrais practitioner.
(b) A neurosurgeon.
(c) A physics professor.
(d) A physical therapist.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Wilson refer for information on heuristics of language and music?

2. What can can restore feeling to one who has lost a sense of connection with their body and enable movement again?

3. What level is the American Sign Language classified as?

4. What does Wilson say laboring in the kitchen takes?

5. What is aphasia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Wilson bring up his friend Jack Schaefer?

4. Upon what does early medicine rely?

5. How has the hand been used throughout its long history?

6. What is the title of Feldenkrais' book and what does the book claim?

7. What does Plotkin say about secondary heuristics?

8. Describe Peter Reynolds work.

9. What does eating at LuLu teach Wilson?

10. What must chefs do to create a meal?

(see the answer keys)

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