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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 Mind: The Gap.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are those people called who sort out baby chickens by their gender?
(a) They do not have a name.
(b) Chickeners.
(c) Chicken sexers.
(d) Sorters.

2. What does Eagleman say about people who marry that is related to the idea of implicit egotism?
(a) That the number of people who marry people whose first names begin with the same letter as their own is statistically significant.
(b) That people who marry seem to suffer less from implicit egotism.
(c) That one marries someone whose egotism reflects their own feelings about themselves.
(d) That people who possess little ego tend not to marry.

3. How complex is the human brain?
(a) Almost unfathomably complex.
(b) No one knows.
(c) Fairly simple.
(d) Parts are simple and parts are somewhat complex.

4. Of what is the phenomenon of depth being stimulated on a flat page an example?
(a) Third dimension painting.
(b) Magic.
(c) The hand is quicker than the eye.
(d) Optical illusions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?

2. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?

3. What happens when one's brain changes?

4. What does Alberts record?

5. How far in the past do we actually "live"?

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