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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. What do newborns seem to recognize?
(a) The sound of their mothers' voices.
(b) Their existence as separate from others around them.
(c) The smell of their mothers.
(d) The feel of their mothers' skin.

2. To what do human beings seem to be predisposed without prior learning?
(a) To understand what motivates our desires.
(b) To want to understand what motivates our desires.
(c) To be attracted to faces.
(d) To be attracted to voices.

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

4. What is exceptional about the creature mentioned in question 89?
(a) They can sense a whole range of odors that human beings cannot sense.
(b) They can smell an odor on the air even after several days.
(c) They can smell the fleas on them.
(d) They can smell odors after weeks have passed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say a man named Alex started demonstrating?

2. How old was Charles Whitman when he died?

3. What example does Eagleman offer to illustrate how sub-routines of our mind work?

4. What do we perceive about the limits of our conscious knowledge?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eagleman say about our ability to perceive light versus that of insects?

2. What does Eagleman say about free will?

3. What does Chapter 4 explore?

4. What incident does Eagleman discuss concerning Mel Gibson?

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

6. Explain the study that was performed on how men rate a woman's attractiveness.

7. What does Eagleman suggest about our culpability in our actions, particularly males?

8. What happens when the frontal cortex is damaged?

9. How does a rat react to conflicting choices?

10. How does Eagleman interpret the incident?

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