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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. How does May first react to his new sight?
(a) He blinds himself again.
(b) Since he had seen when he was younger, it was no big deal.
(c) He is elated and awed.
(d) He is unable to make sense of what he sees.

2. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?
(a) It uses a series of electrodes on the back that pulsed in different ways according to the person's proximity to objects.
(b) It gives a slight electrical shock to the person's arm where it is attached.
(c) It pushes the person in one direction or another when it senses an obstacle.
(d) It beeps when its sensors notice an object in the person's path.

3. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?
(a) Both involve the right brain.
(b) Both involve the same area of the left brain.
(c) There are thoughts that we cannot think, just as there are wavelengths of light we cannot see.
(d) Neither are infallible.

4. What was winning the battle for control of Whitman's behavior in Eagleman's analogy?
(a) Religion versus science.
(b) Whitman's aggressive zombie programs.
(c) Love versus hate.
(d) Logic versus emotions.

5. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Our vision can be fooled.
(c) Our sight can be erratic.
(d) Our sight can be inaccurate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?

2. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?

3. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?

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

5. What is the orbitofrontal cortex?

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