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

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

3. How does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?
(a) It goes back to the early history of humankind.
(b) Men are attracted to women who have the same ethnic looks as themselves.
(c) It is socially ingrained from advertisements.
(d) The cars that men chose were the ones that had the most attractive women standing by them.

4. What does Eagleman say is difficult?
(a) Believing that our unconscious is so unaware.
(b) Believing that our unconscious is so aware.
(c) Knowing that we have very little true free will.
(d) Understanding and accepting that much of our minds is inaccessible to our conscious selves.

5. What do we perceive about the limits of our conscious knowledge?
(a) We know there are limits but don't always recognize when we've reached one.
(b) We know there are no limits but we often act as if there are.
(c) Our conscious mind in its egoistic state does not believe there are limits.
(d) We do not know what the limits of our conscious knowledge is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say has happened to complicated processes in his analogy of consciousness?

2. What were men then shown for a longer period of time?

3. Where does the incident take place that Eagleman describe from 1966?

4. Of what is the phenomenon of depth being stimulated on a flat page an example?

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

(see the answer key)

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