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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 is something the brain has to learn?
(a) Seeing.
(b) Moving electrical impulses.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Making contacts among synapses.

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

3. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?
(a) 1/15.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/20.
(d) 1/10.

4. How does one blind rock climber use a mechanical device to help climb?
(a) The device beeps in code to say where a usable crack is locate.
(b) There is no such device developed yet; it is in prototype stage.
(c) The device latches onto cracks and crevices and the climber follows the rope.
(d) The device transmits impulses through the climber's tongue.

5. What disease does Eagleman mention in support of his argument about free will?
(a) OCD.
(b) Tourette's Syndrome.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Autism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Charles Whitman when he died?

2. What does Chapter 4 explore?

3. How does Eagleton support his statement about what is or is not hard wired into our brains?

4. How far in the past do we actually "live"?

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

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