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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. How many Feldenkrais sessions does it take to effect a change in a woman with torsion dystonia?
2. What did ground mammals eat at this time?
3. How does Wilson learn that cooking is a specific skill using hands to produce an immediate sense of achievement?
4. What does Peter Reynolds spend years doing in New Guinea?
5. What is sometimes attributed to intelligence or gender?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Jeanne Bamberger and what does Wilson write about her work?
2. What two brain task does Noam Chomsky say are necessary for an individual to speak a language?
3. What do medicine and magic have in common?
4. What does Wilson say about the skills of musical virtuosos?
5. What does Wilson say about stone knapping?
6. Describe Peter Reynolds work.
7. Why does Wilson bring up his friend Jack Schaefer?
8. What area of the brain seems to be specialized for language and for how long has this are been adapted for language?
9. What type of therapy is used in many cultures and to what does it go back?
10. Who is Patricia Greenfield and what does she theorize?
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
Through the ages of human history Wilson explores cultural transformation of human paths and posits the "permanent immaturity" of a human brain. Wilson's underlying thesis is that people are born resourceful. Over time and experience, they adapt and evolve to become skillful and thoughtful.
1. Explain, in detail what is meant by "permanent immaturity" of a human brain. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. Discuss two ways in which humans have adapted to their environment. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. Explain how becoming more skillful and thoughtful is related to evolution. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
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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