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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Why Blameworthiness Is the Wrong Question.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eagleman say a man named Alex started demonstrating?
(a) An unusual musical talent.
(b) A significant change in his sexual preferences.
(c) An unusual mathematical talent.
(d) A significant change in his television habits.

2. How does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?
(a) The cars that men chose were the ones that had the most attractive women standing by them.
(b) It is socially ingrained from advertisements.
(c) It goes back to the early history of humankind.
(d) Men are attracted to women who have the same ethnic looks as themselves.

3. What was discovered about Alex's health?
(a) He was low on several minerals.
(b) He had a self-immune disorder.
(c) He was schizophrenic.
(d) He had a brain tumor.

4. Why does Eagleman think people find the second puzzle easier to solve?
(a) They had practice with the first puzzle and it was in their unconscious.
(b) They were told the first puzzle was easier.
(c) They were told the second puzzle was easier.
(d) Most people more easily process information framed it in a social context.

5. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?
(a) The person who is sighted from birth can see better in low light.
(b) The formerly blind person's eyes often do not work in tandem.
(c) The eyes both work the same in both groups.
(d) The formerly blind person's eyes often only work in strong light.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say we are at the mercy of?

2. How does Eagleton support his statement about what is or is not hard wired into our brains?

3. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?

4. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?

5. To what do human beings seem to be predisposed without prior learning?

(see the answer key)

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