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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?
(a) A way to manufacture food.
(b) The human genome.
(c) A way to produce energy.
(d) A way to process information.

3. How many connections does a typical neuron make to neighboring neurons?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 100.
(d) 10.

4. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?
(a) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.
(b) He learns to interpret the world around him except for objects in the distance.
(c) He makes sense of the world in a different way than lifelong sighted people.
(d) He learns to make sense of the visual world.

5. What does the author call self-healing material?
(a) Internal organs.
(b) Bones.
(c) The skin.
(d) The brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alberts convince one African that the native's tongue is still intact?

2. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?

3. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?

4. How does the author describe parts of the brain?

5. How does one blind rock climber use a mechanical device to help climb?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eagleman say about the auditory sense?

2. How does Mike May adjust to his regained sight?

3. What is the point of the experiment that Eagleman suggests the reader try?

4. How can the brain see without eyes and what is one way this is possible?

5. What is the simple experiment Eagleman asks the reader to perform?

6. Explain the example of the chicken sexers that Eagleman discusses.

7. What has to shift in order to fully appreciate the small role of the unconscious and to what does Eagleman compare that shift?

8. What happens to a blind person who recovers his/her sight?

9. How is our brain wired for performing complicated tasks and why?

10. What does Eagleman say our intuition tells us about our experience of the world and is the intuition accurate?

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