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

2. How does Eagleman compare the conscious mind to the senses in a human being?
(a) Senses do not have limits but the conscious mind does.
(b) Both have limits.
(c) Senses have limits but the conscious mind does not.
(d) Neither have limits.

3. What did Whitman indicate in some writings he left behind?
(a) He suspected he had something wrong with his brain.
(b) He wanted to take others with him so he wouldn't be lonely.
(c) He was sorry he was out of control.
(d) He hated his father.

4. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?
(a) Our knowledge.
(b) Our previous experiences.
(c) Our intuition.
(d) Our senses.

5. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?
(a) Blind people who recover their sight.
(b) Someone who has cataracts removed.
(c) Everyone who is sighted can immediately discern depth and movement.
(d) Someone who closes the eyes for more than a few seconds and then opens them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say has happened to complicated processes in his analogy of consciousness?

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

3. How much of the wavelengths of light do our eyes see?

4. What disease does Eagleman mention in support of his argument about free will?

5. Who is Charles Whitman?

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