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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 can cause reduced bodily movement?

2. With whom does the University of New Mexico perform a study about communicative movements?

3. What must the magician do for success?

4. By what age do most young children begin to make sentences?

5. Upon what did early medicine rely for healing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the term "BackTur."

2. What is the result of global climate changes 65 million years ago?

3. What two brain task does Noam Chomsky say are necessary for an individual to speak a language?

4. Explain the studies that are conducted by a joint effort of University of New Mexico and Gallaudet University?

5. What does eating at LuLu teach Wilson?

6. What is the title of Feldenkrais' book and what does the book claim?

7. What do medicine and magic have in common?

8. Who is Paul Broca and for what is he known?

9. What does Wilson say about the skills of musical virtuosos?

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

The Hand belongs to the non-fiction genre. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the non-fiction genre.

2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.

3. What do you think is the difference between a non-fiction and a novel?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. Mary Marzke follows up on Napier's initial work to classify three types of grip that are defined as pad-to-side, three-jawed chuck and five-jawed cradle. Describe the three types of grips in detail and discuss why you do or do not agree with Marzke that there are only three types of grips. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. What are the eight features of the human hand that Marzke discusses and why are they important? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

3. Describe what you think is the single most important modification of the ape hand to human society and why you think it is. 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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