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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 Wilson wonder about his daughter?
(a) If she can rock climb since she is an accomplished musician.
(b) How she makes her fingers move so fast over the piano keyboard?
(c) If her stuttering was what leads to her abilities as a musician.
(d) If her fingers could move faster over the piano keyboard.

2. What is sometimes attributed to intelligence or gender?
(a) Which hand one uses as the dominent hand.
(b) Good penmanship.
(c) Coordination.
(d) The uses to which one puts the hand.

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

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

5. Who must suspend their disbelief?
(a) The doctor.
(b) The patient.
(c) The Shamen.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rule does Greenfield propose?

2. What does William Calvin claim about female apes?

3. What is aphasia?

4. How does Greenfield say she knows how a child will solve Greenfield's stick puzzle?

5. Who is an Israeli physicist mentioned in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Plotkin say about secondary heuristics?

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

7. Upon what does early medicine rely?

8. What does Wilson say about stone knapping?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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