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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. By what age do children become improvisers who behave with intelligence?
2. What is a second language requirement?
3. What helps the high school teacher?
4. How many years ago did changes in global climate initiate an ecosystem of fruits and flowers?
5. What does the Israeli physicist perceive as a sophisticated controller of movement?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why can't ground mammals take advantage of this global change?
2. What does eating at LuLu teach Wilson?
3. What does the author think about concerning a high school language teacher?
4. What does Wilson say about the skills of musical virtuosos?
5. Who is Moshe Feldenkrais and what does he discover?
6. What does William Calvin believe about female apes?
7. Who is Patricia Greenfield and what does she theorize?
8. Who is Jeanne Bamberger and what does Wilson write about her work?
9. What do medicine and magic have in common?
10. What is the result of global climate changes 65 million years ago?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Wilson has cited a number of people in this book. Discuss he following:
1. Choose three people whom Wilson mentions positively and give a brief idea of his opinions about those three people (or stereotypes). Use examples from The Hand to support your answer.
2. Choose three people whom Wilson mentions negatively and give a brief idea of his opinions about those three people (or stereotypes). Use examples from The Hand to support your answer.
3. Judging what Wilson says about different people in his text, how would you characterize him as a friend? As a colleague? Use examples from The Hand to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Anatomically, ape and human hands have been, until recently, considered functionally equivalent by anthropologists. The prehuman arm, however, was considered functionally and anatomically different metaphorically by analysis to a construction crane and its operator.
1. Explain the metaphor of the prehuman being related to a crane. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. Explain what part of the body is the crane operator in the above metaphor and how it relates to the use of the hand. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. Discuss the following statement in relation to modern human society. When the forelimbs were relieved of the duty to walk on and support body weight, the brain enabled them to become functional in many other areas and skills. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
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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