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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 does Chapter 4 explore?
(a) The limits to our conscious thinking.
(b) How the conscious and unconscious minds can be complementary.
(c) The limits to our unconscious thinking.
(d) The ways our conscious thinking get us in trouble.

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

3. Where does the incident take place that Eagleman describe from 1966?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Orlando.
(c) Austin.
(d) Dallas.

4. What does Eagleman say we cannot choose?
(a) If we want to commit a murder or not.
(b) If our environment has chemical hazards that could trigger bad behavior.
(c) Our genes or who raises us.
(d) If we want to eat that piece of pie or not.

5. What is the significant fact in the two showings to the men?
(a) The men seemed to randomly choose preferences no matter the amount of time exposed to the images.
(b) The men invariably chose the same in either situation.
(c) The men invariably chose differently in each situation.
(d) It has little to do with appearance, but more to do with the time they had to look at the pictures.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?

2. What was disorienting for May?

3. What was discovered about Alex's health?

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

5. What are two examples of optical illusions?

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