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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. Why don't the ground mammals at this time eat the fruit in the trees?
2. How many Feldenkrais sessions does it take to effect a change in a woman with torsion dystonia?
3. What is BachTur?
4. How does black magic differ from white magic regarding a patient's belief?
5. Why does the high school language teacher quit teaching?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Moshe Feldenkrais and what does he discover?
2. What does Wilson say about stone knapping?
3. Who is Paul Broca and for what is he known?
4. Why does Wilson bring up his friend Jack Schaefer?
5. What is the title of Feldenkrais' book and what does the book claim?
6. What does Plotkin say about secondary heuristics?
7. What does Feldenkrais say about how parents can inhibit their child's abilities?
8. What type of therapy is used in many cultures and to what does it go back?
9. What is the result of global climate changes 65 million years ago?
10. What do medicine and magic have in common?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Wilson claims the brain and musculoskeletal systems evolve by changing structure and function over time, the bipedal gait and upper limb changes are characteristic of the hominid line distinct from primates, and the driving force of hominid brain evolution is the brain and society as hominids expand their range beyond the jungle into other habitats.
1. Explain what Wilson means by the brain and musculoskeletal systems changing structure and function. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. Discuss, in depth, how the bipedal gait and upper limbs differ between hominids and apes. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. Discuss reasons you think expanding the range of habitats made the hominid more intelligent. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
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 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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