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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 The Brain Is a Team of Rivals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one routine in charge of?
(a) Writing down each degree of latitude.
(b) Recording moisture readings.
(c) Spotting the numbers.
(d) Finding the block.

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

3. For what was the actor in #109 arrested in 2006?
(a) Wife abuse.
(b) Tax evasion.
(c) Bad acting.
(d) Driving while intoxicated.

4. What is meant by "implicit egotism"?
(a) The tendency for most people to like themselves.
(b) The tendency for the ego to determine prejudice.
(c) The way the ego receives implied beliefs from the unconscious.
(d) The belief in psychology that the ego is not real.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?

2. What was disorienting for May?

3. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?

4. What indicates a state of sexual arousal in women?

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

(see the answer key)

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