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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 skills does Wilson say today's warriors learn?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Hunting and gathering.
(c) Fishing and hunting.
(d) Those needed to wield skillets, pots and pans after chopping and slicing in kitchens.

2. What rule does Greenfield propose?
(a) A hierarchical rule generator.
(b) A rule that illustrates how an adult can sometimes change hand dominence.
(c) A rule that illustrates how a child can sometimes change hand dominence.
(d) A rule that a person uses to decide what skills to develop.

3. What develops early in the brain of a child?
(a) Musical talent or heuristic.
(b) The ability to distinguish tones.
(c) Complex speech patterns.
(d) Rhythm.

4. What does Wilson say is an emotional experience?
(a) Learning a new skill.
(b) Food.
(c) Completing a perfect, nine-course meal.
(d) Interacting with an aclaimed chef.

5. To what is Franz Liszt compared?
(a) Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Mozart's ability to create music at a very early age.
(d) Rodin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is an example of a secondary heuristic?

3. What is BachTur?

4. What does William Calvin claim about female apes?

5. Why does Calvin think the female ape cradles her baby in its left arm?

Short Essay Questions

1. Upon what does early medicine rely?

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

3. What does Wilson say about the skills of musical virtuosos?

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

5. Explain the term "BackTur."

6. What does eating at LuLu teach Wilson?

7. Describe Peter Reynolds work.

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

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

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

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