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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 does Broca identify an area in the brain that controls speech?
(a) By a drug that changes the speech area of the brain.
(b) By small electrical charges administered to different areas of the brain.
(c) By examining an MRI in a person who has never been able to speak.
(d) By examining the brain of a stroke patient who is left speechless.

2. What is a consistent practice common to Feldenkrais and other methods of healing?
(a) Using medicine.
(b) Visualizing.
(c) The use of the hands.
(d) The use of heat.

3. How many levels does the continuum of communicative movements have?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 1.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did ground mammals eat at this time?

2. What does Wilson say is not genetic?

3. Who is the author of Awareness Through Movement?

4. What do great pianists no precede?

5. What does the beginning of this chapter say the hand been used throughout its long history?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Feldenkrais say about how parents can inhibit their child's abilities?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does eating at LuLu teach Wilson?

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

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