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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) He is elated and awed.
(c) He is unable to make sense of what he sees.
(d) Since he had seen when he was younger, it was no big deal.

2. What does Eagleman say has happened to complicated processes in his analogy of consciousness?
(a) They have been compressed to dots.
(b) The processes have been compressed into headlines.
(c) They have been jumbled into split images.
(d) They have been compressed from novels to short stores.

3. How does Eagleton support his statement about what is or is not hard wired into our brains?
(a) He has the reader do an experiement on their own mind.
(b) He says the reader must take his word on it.
(c) He provides several examples.
(d) He says he cannot support it since it is only theoretical.

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

5. What studies does Eagleman look at in this chapter?
(a) Studies that look at what people seem to find attractive in others.
(b) Studies about how one distinguishes one smell from another.
(c) Studies about how one distinguishes one taste from another.
(d) Studies about how the brain processes input.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the device that takes visual input through a camera and translate it into impulses do?

2. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?

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

4. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?

5. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?

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