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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 The Testimony of the Senses: What Is Experience Really Like?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?
(a) Hundreds of trillions.
(b) Hundreds of thousands.
(c) Hundreds of billions.
(d) Trillions of trillions.

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

3. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?
(a) Nephrons.
(b) Erythrocytes.
(c) Neurons.
(d) Hepatic.

4. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?
(a) The language of individual, specialized cells.
(b) Our means of connecting the brain to the heart.
(c) Our emotional world.
(d) Our own programming language.

5. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?
(a) Vision is a very simple process of mirrors and reflections.
(b) The brain is so capable, it doesn't take much of it for any sensory input.
(c) It can take place while easily freeing the brain for other matters.
(d) Vision is an extremely complex process.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Arthur Alberts travel from New York to Africa?

2. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?

3. What does Eagleman say seeing is?

4. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?

5. How does the author refer to the brain?

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