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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 right-handed knapping tend to do?
(a) Produce more flakes than left-handed knapping.
(b) Makes the knapper more proficient with both hands.
(c) Makes the left hand atrophy.
(d) Makes the knapper more create in how s/he makes the tool.

2. What area of the brain do scientists believe is specialized for language?
(a) The left brain hemisphere.
(b) The cerebellum.
(c) The right brain hemisphere.
(d) The frontal lobe.

3. How does Greenfield say she knows how a child will solve Greenfield's stick puzzle?
(a) By knowing if the child can read.
(b) By observing which thumb is larger.
(c) By knowing the child's age.
(d) By observing which foot the child starts out on when walking.

4. What do some people claim is not biologically relevant?
(a) Sex.
(b) Art.
(c) Language.
(d) Music.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What distinguishes a proficient surgeon from a mediocre one?

2. For how long has the brain been preadapted for speech?

3. By what age do children become improvisers who behave with intelligence?

4. How is the dominant hand theoretically controlled?

5. To what is Franz Liszt compared?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Upon what does early medicine rely?

3. What does Plotkin say about secondary heuristics?

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

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

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

7. What does eating at LuLu teach Wilson?

8. What does William Calvin believe about female apes?

9. Who is Jeanne Bamberger and what does Wilson write about her work?

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

(see the answer keys)

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