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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 does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?
(a) Men are attracted to women who have the same ethnic looks as themselves.
(b) It is socially ingrained from advertisements.
(c) The cars that men chose were the ones that had the most attractive women standing by them.
(d) It goes back to the early history of humankind.

2. Who obtained a record of the arresting incident?
(a) The Anti-defamation League.
(b) The Chinese-American Relations Association.
(c) The Hispanic-American Cultural League.
(d) A celebrity gossip website.

3. What did an autopsy of Whitman find?
(a) He had a brain tumor.
(b) He was on ten different types of medicins.
(c) He was drunk when he died.
(d) He was severely abused as a child.

4. What disease does Eagleman mention in support of his argument about free will?
(a) Autism.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) OCD.
(d) Tourette's Syndrome.

5. What had people noticed about Whitman in some months before his death?
(a) He seemed full of hope.
(b) His behavior had changed.
(c) He seemed to feel much despair.
(d) He seemed the same as always.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one routine in charge of?

2. How does Eagleton support his statement about what is or is not hard wired into our brains?

3. What does Eagleman say the majority of criminals are?

4. For what was the actor in #109 arrested in 2006?

5. Who is Charles Whitman?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eagleman say is hard wired into our brains?

2. What happens when the frontal cortex is damaged?

3. What comparison of thought to wavelengths does Eagleman make?

4. How does a rat react to conflicting choices?

5. What does Eagleman say about free will?

6. What does Eagleman write about Kenneth Parks?

7. How does Eagleman interpret the incident?

8. What does Chapter 4 explore?

9. What incident does Eagleman discuss concerning Mel Gibson?

10. Who is Charles Whitman and what did he do and what may have contributed to his actions?

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