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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 is the most important part of seeing?
(a) What the unconscious brain does with the information.
(b) How seeing stimulates the brain to be more productive.
(c) How one uses the information gained by sight.
(d) How seeing enables social interaction.

2. How much of the wavelengths of light do our eyes see?
(a) Most of it.
(b) Mostly the middle 1/3.
(c) Only a small portion.
(d) Mostly the bands at either end.

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

4. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?
(a) It uses a series of electrodes on the back that pulsed in different ways according to the person's proximity to objects.
(b) It beeps when its sensors notice an object in the person's path.
(c) It pushes the person in one direction or another when it senses an obstacle.
(d) It gives a slight electrical shock to the person's arm where it is attached.

5. What problem does Eagleman describe in illustrating how the mind may be divided?
(a) The problem of longitude.
(b) Counting recurring numbers without missing one.
(c) When developing the polygraph, how to distinguish between saying one thing and expressing something different with body language.
(d) An early problem in the development of artificial intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What creature does Eagleman use as an example of one with an excellent sense of smell?

2. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?

3. What was one routine in charge of?

4. What is hard wired into our brains?

5. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?

(see the answer key)

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