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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 Life After the Monarchy.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do sorters learn to do their job?
(a) By studying videos of how to sort.
(b) By reading a how-to book.
(c) By watching experts sort.
(d) By an expert sorter correcting a novice.

3. What is the significant fact in the two showings to the men?
(a) It has little to do with appearance, but more to do with the time they had to look at the pictures.
(b) The men invariably chose differently in each situation.
(c) The men invariably chose the same in either situation.
(d) The men seemed to randomly choose preferences no matter the amount of time exposed to the images.

4. How is what a person likes determined?
(a) Largely by unconscious thinking.
(b) Largely by conscious thinking.
(c) There is no way to know that.
(d) By careful consideration of the conscious mind with input from the unconscious mind.

5. What would happen if the people actually performed this motion in reality?
(a) The car would go off the road.
(b) The car would flip over.
(c) The circle would most likely turn out to be more elliptical.
(d) The square would be a rectangle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman argue must change?

2. What happens when a rat is presented with a similar dilemma as the one in question 129?

3. What argument does Eagleman say he is not making?

4. What does Alberts record?

5. To what does Eagleman liken the discoveries of neuroscience?

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