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

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

3. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?
(a) People who move to a different culture.
(b) People who start wearing glasses.
(c) People who have had an eye injured and do not see out of it for a while.
(d) Blind people who recover their sight.

4. What were men first shown briefly?
(a) Colors lined up in various orders.
(b) Pictures of cars.
(c) Abstract figures.
(d) Pictures of women.

5. What had people noticed about Whitman in some months before his death?
(a) He seemed the same as always.
(b) He seemed full of hope.
(c) He seemed to feel much despair.
(d) His behavior had changed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What question has been addressed by philosophers for ages?

3. What studies does Eagleman look at in this chapter?

4. What are we actually unaware of?

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

(see the answer key)

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