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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 - 19 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are some of the places Legs and Arms were said to help carry the body?
(a) Shops and valleys and up and down mountains.
(b) Shops and markets and up and down trees.
(c) Cafes and malls and across the street.
(d) Stores and movies and down the street.

2. What aspect of the hand is said to have been different than hands today?
(a) Humans had only three fingers.
(b) Humans did not have thumbs.
(c) Humans had two thumbs.
(d) The thumb was close to the fingers like the big toe.

3. What phrase is used to describe what the other body parts no longer wanted to lend to Arms and Legs?
(a) Their sensory expertise.
(b) Their secret powers.
(c) Their special genius.
(d) Their singular beauty.

4. Arms brags that which part of them are superior to the Toes?
(a) Elbows.
(b) Wrists.
(c) Shoulders.
(d) Fingers.

5. What body part developed the plan to put Legs and Arms against each other?
(a) Mouth.
(b) Eyes.
(c) Tongue.
(d) Brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Legs and Arms relationship described?

2. What expression is used for the time the story describes at the start?

3. Who wrote The Upright Revolution, or Why Humans Walk Upright?

4. What does Legs say about Arms' "long slim fingers" (16).

5. What do the other body parts begin to do as a result of their envy of Legs and Arms?

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