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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. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?
(a) 1/10.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/20.
(d) 1/15.

2. What was disorienting for May?
(a) The way shapes affected the appearance of colors.
(b) The way steps seemed unattached to the earth.
(c) The way colors affected the appearance of shapes.
(d) The sudden shift of objects in his visual field when he turned his head.

3. How does May first react to his new sight?
(a) He is elated and awed.
(b) He is unable to make sense of what he sees.
(c) Since he had seen when he was younger, it was no big deal.
(d) He blinds himself again.

4. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?
(a) Someone who has cataracts removed.
(b) Blind people who recover their sight.
(c) Everyone who is sighted can immediately discern depth and movement.
(d) Someone who closes the eyes for more than a few seconds and then opens them.

5. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?
(a) Illustrations of pictures within pictures.
(b) Illustrations of optical illusions.
(c) Illustrations of how the eye can move too fast to be accurate.
(d) Illustrations of the eye structure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question has been addressed by philosophers for ages?

2. What is something the brain has to learn?

3. What assumption is at the core of the American legal system?

4. What does the logic puzzle that Eagleman challenges readers with involve?

5. How did Whitman die?

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