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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 is ChomTur?
(a) A rubric for studying speech patterns.
(b) The term for specialized control mechanisms of language.
(c) A term for specialized control mechanisms of thought.
(d) A rubric for studying brain wave patterns.

2. What does Peter Reynolds spend years doing in New Guinea?
(a) Observing chimpanzees.
(b) Studying the ancient artifacts of the extinct culture.
(c) Observing young baboons.
(d) Observing gorillas.

3. What is one of medicine's oldest links?
(a) Existence of pathogens.
(b) The Hippocratic oath.
(c) Medicines.
(d) Magic and its connection with charismatic persuasion.

4. What do Haeckel, Reynolds and Dunbar confirm?
(a) Children become problem solvers even before they can talk.
(b) Apes and children have a very different evolutionary process from about six months on.
(c) Aspects of the evolutionary process perceived in Greenfield's theory.
(d) Children become improvisers before they can even talk.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why don't the ground mammals at this time eat the fruit in the trees?

3. How is the dominant hand theoretically controlled?

4. According to Chomsky, how many brain tasks are required for speaking language?

5. What can cause reduced bodily movement?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author think about concerning a high school language teacher?

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

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

5. What does eating at LuLu teach Wilson?

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

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

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

9. Explain the studies that are conducted by a joint effort of University of New Mexico and Gallaudet University?

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

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