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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 Herophilus discover?
2. What does juggling as learned and performed by Percelly provide?
3. How long can a grip on a rock last for a climber?
4. What is one thing that shoulder and forearm development enabled?
5. What is one feature of the human hand that Marzke identifies?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Wilson propose as the juggling riddle, and why do children not aspire to juggle?
2. Explain the crane metaphor Wilson uses.
3. What does practice after learning do?
4. What are the eight features of the human hand according to Mary Marzke?
5. What has to happen in order for the thumb to be useful?
6. What aspects of the human capacity for passionate, creative work does Wilson illustrate?
7. Who is Robin Dunbar and what does he propose?
8. According to Wilson, what are the two problem-solving strategies that stand out?
9. Who is David and how is he able to succeed at wrestling despite not being very strong?
10. How were the ape and human hands compared anatomically until recently?
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
Discuss the following:
1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful work of non-fiction?
2. Analyze and discuss The Hand based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if The Hand is a successful work of non-fiction/memoir.
3. Is The Hand a book you would recommend to a friend? Why or why not? Explain.
4. Can a non-fictional book be successful and yet many readers not enjoy it? Explain your response.
Essay Topic 3
Wilson reflects on the notion that each of us evolve over time in our own lives by unifying body and spirit through personal growth and learning. For example, Percelly and David both cross paths of trouble and opportunity mixed with family and tribal routines to try new skills or combinations. These new-found abilities are part of their repertoire that becomes useful to them and can be passed on to others.
1. Explain why Wilson might believe that personal growth helps unite the spirit and the body. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. Discuss the ways in which having trouble in a person's life could be an opportunity. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. Discuss ways in which a person in a family or group or tribe learning new skills might benefit the entire group. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
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