View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Calvin think the female ape cradles her baby in its left arm?
(a) It tends to be the stronger arm.
(b) It tends to be the longer arm.
(c) He has no idea.
(d) So the baby can hear the mother's heartbeat.

2. What is a second language requirement?
(a) The ability to hear.
(b) The ability to put words together in a chain or cluster.
(c) The ability of the brain to understand the connection between concrete objects and their abstract names.
(d) The ability to form the tongue into vowel shapes.

3. What often dictates which hand is dominate?
(a) The baby deciding to use one or the other more often.
(b) The larger of the two hands tends to be dominent.
(c) The smaller of the two hands tends to be dominent.
(d) Social pressures.

4. To what is primate grooming connected?
(a) Human grooming.
(b) Hands-on therapy.
(c) Learning ways to use the hands.
(d) Learning dexterity.

5. To what do writing and drawing relate?
(a) Touch and sight.
(b) Seeing and hearing.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Many other skills using small tools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a consistent practice common to Feldenkrais and other methods of healing?

2. What is BachTur?

3. What does Peter Reynolds spend years doing in New Guinea?

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

5. What is another thing today's chef must have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two brain task does Noam Chomsky say are necessary for an individual to speak a language?

2. What must chefs do to create a meal?

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

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

5. Why can't ground mammals take advantage of this global change?

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

7. What does Wilson say about stone knapping?

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

9. What does William Calvin believe about female apes?

10. What is the result of global climate changes 65 million years ago?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 813 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample