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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The Kinds of Thoughts That Are Thinkable.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were men then shown for a longer period of time?
(a) Pictures of cars with women beside them.
(b) Colors splashed randomly on the paper.
(c) The same pictures of the women.
(d) Pictures of abstract figures that resembled the female figure.

3. What does the novice sorter eventually do in order to become an expert sorter?
(a) Intuit the difference with their minds.
(b) Close their eyes and hear the difference.
(c) Internalize the task.
(d) Feel the difference in feather softness.

4. What do most of us notice in the world around us?
(a) That which impacts our safety.
(b) Just when something is out of the ordinary.
(c) About ninety percent of what is actually there.
(d) About ten percent of what is actually there.

5. When an action becomes automatic, what part of the brain is controlling it?
(a) The unconscious mind.
(b) It depends upon what the action entails.
(c) The conscious mind.
(d) The superconscious mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleton point out in the beginning of the chapter about our senses?

2. What does Eagleman say is difficult?

3. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?

4. What seems natural to most people?

5. What does Chapter 4 explore?

(see the answer key)

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