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

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

3. What creature does Eagleman use as an example of one with an excellent sense of smell?
(a) Wolf.
(b) Cat.
(c) Tiger.
(d) Bloodhound.

4. From what was Alex suffering at the time?
(a) Depression.
(b) Delusions of grandeur.
(c) Serious headaches.
(d) Eczema.

5. What do most of us notice in the world around us?
(a) Just when something is out of the ordinary.
(b) About ninety percent of what is actually there.
(c) That which impacts our safety.
(d) About ten percent of what is actually there.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Eagleman compare the conscious mind to the senses in a human being?

3. How does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?

4. What assumption is at the core of the American legal system?

5. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?

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