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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 "prestidigitation" mean?
2. Who is an Israeli physicist mentioned in this chapter?
3. According to Chomsky, how many brain tasks are required for speaking language?
4. What is one level of communicative movement?
5. What do Lucy and her descendants get used to doing?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Feldenkrais say about how parents can inhibit their child's abilities?
2. What is one of medicine's oldest links and how does it work?
3. Upon what does early medicine rely?
4. Who is Jeanne Bamberger and what does Wilson write about her work?
5. What does William Calvin believe about female apes?
6. What does Wilson say about the skills of musical virtuosos?
7. What does eating at LuLu teach Wilson?
8. What must chefs do to create a meal?
9. What area of the brain seems to be specialized for language and for how long has this are been adapted for language?
10. Why can't ground mammals take advantage of this global change?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
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.
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