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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 Wilson say is not genetic?
2. Who coins the term ChomTur?
3. What do both knapping and rock climbing require?
4. What is one of medicine's oldest links?
5. What does right-handed knapping tend to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is one thing that influences which hand is dominant and what are a couple other characteristics that are often associated with one dominant hand or the other?
2. What is one of medicine's oldest links and how does it work?
3. What does William Calvin believe about female apes?
4. What area of the brain seems to be specialized for language and for how long has this are been adapted for language?
5. Why can't ground mammals take advantage of this global change?
6. Why does Wilson bring up his friend Jack Schaefer?
7. What does Wilson say about the skills of musical virtuosos?
8. What does Plotkin say about secondary heuristics?
9. What is the result of global climate changes 65 million years ago?
10. Who is Patricia Greenfield and what does she theorize?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
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.
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