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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 is the purpose of the shoulder, arm and hand in being fully integrated?
2. What is one thing the thumb is uniquely able to do?
3. What does juggling as learned and performed by Percelly provide?
4. What is one feature of the human hand that Marzke identifies?
5. What does Frederick Wood Jones note about the hand?
Short Essay Questions
1. What puzzles Frank Wilson about rock climbing and piano playing? Why?
2. What does practice after learning do?
3. What has to happen in order for the thumb to be useful?
4. What two terms does Duchenne propose for the scale of movement required by two hands acting in partnership?
5. Who is George, and what does Wilson say about him?
6. What does Wilson say about juggling as a pastime?
7. How is the arm different from the leg in how it is attached to the body, and which parts of the upper body corresponds to the "folding crane"?
8. Who is Merlin Donald and what does he propose?
9. What does Wilson say about our hands and feet as we are about to waken and right after?
10. What does Wilson propose as the juggling riddle, and why do children not aspire to juggle?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Through the ages of human history Wilson explores cultural transformation of human paths and posits the "permanent immaturity" of a human brain. Wilson's underlying thesis is that people are born resourceful. Over time and experience, they adapt and evolve to become skillful and thoughtful.
1. Explain, in detail what is meant by "permanent immaturity" of a human brain. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. Discuss two ways in which humans have adapted to their environment. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. Explain how becoming more skillful and thoughtful is related to evolution. 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
In order for hominids to expand their range into habitats beyond the jungle, they required continuing brain evolution. The expansion of territory by hominids took group cooperation for survival. A professor of biology from the University of Liverpool named Robin Dunbar proposes a theory of brain growth, language and intelligence to correlate neocortex, brain size, with a stable group or tribe.
1. Explain how greater intelligence enabled hominids to leave the jungle. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. Explain, in depth, why cooperation among hominids would be an important aspect of survival. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. Discuss ways in which cooperation and social living might increase the brain size or intelligence of hominids. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
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