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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does juggling as learned and performed by Percelly provide?
2. How many fingers does George saw off his right hand by accident?
3. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?
4. How does the brain teach itself in order to juggle?
5. What is the hand's optimal position over the keyboard?
Short Essay Questions
1. What has to happen in order for the thumb to be useful?
2. Who is Robin Dunbar and what does he propose?
3. What is Wilson's "mission" with this book?
4. What does Charles Bell believe about practice?
5. Who is David and how is he able to succeed at wrestling despite not being very strong?
6. What does Mary Marzke classify and how does she do so?
7. What aspects of the human capacity for passionate, creative work does Wilson illustrate?
8. What puzzles Frank Wilson about rock climbing and piano playing? Why?
9. What does Wilson say about juggling as a pastime?
10. What do humans need to move out of the jungle?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Hands can learn to function in a complementary partnership, become an articulate organ with which to express oneself and associate complex motor linkages of hand and brain.
1. Give three examples of hands working as complementary partners and explain, in depth, those examples. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. What does the author mean by the following statement? Hands can become an articulate organ with which to express itself. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. What does the author mean by the following statement? Hands can associate complex motor linkages of hand and brain. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Frank R. Wilson.
2. What in Wilson's background may have helped him in writing The Hand? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?
3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her books? Why or why not? Give examples.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the following:
1. Charles Bell asserts that practice enables the hand and eye to develop as sense organs so the brain teaches itself by making the hand and eye work together. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. Charles Sherrington claims the tip of the thumb and index finger are treated by the brain like the sensitive part of the retina. He claims the eye is drawn to the object automatically and the hand with its sensitive fingers grasps it. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. A biologic clock develops to set an internal time reference relative to the time used in a sequence of motion--for example, the time it takes for a ball to fall. Practice improves the sense of timing but a teacher or coach can help to sequence the process and eliminate making the same mistakes. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
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