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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Why Blameworthiness Is the Wrong Question.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eagleman say we cannot think?
(a) Abstract ideas in a third dimension.
(b) Some thoughts.
(c) There is nothing we cannot think.
(d) Something that is contrary to the implicit ego.

2. What argument does Eagleman say he is not making?
(a) That we should be working more towards gene manipulation.
(b) That every one must be absolutely accountable.
(c) That those who have a genetic defect that affects their behavior should be more closely monitored.
(d) That no one is responsible for his/her choices.

3. What assumption is at the core of the American legal system?
(a) That some people's insanity is not their fault.
(b) That there are some people who can choose no other than a life of crime.
(c) That we each have free will.
(d) That some people are genetically insane.

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

5. How far in the past do we actually "live"?
(a) Sometimes up to a minute.
(b) We actually live slightly into the future.
(c) A few milliseconds.
(d) A second or two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Eagleman think people find the second puzzle easier to solve?

2. What does the amygdala regulate?

3. What did Whitman indicate in some writings he left behind?

4. What was disorienting for May?

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

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