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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. Why does Eagleman think people find the second puzzle easier to solve?
(a) They had practice with the first puzzle and it was in their unconscious.
(b) Most people more easily process information framed it in a social context.
(c) They were told the second puzzle was easier.
(d) They were told the first puzzle was easier.

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

3. What does the amygdala regulate?
(a) Emotions such as aggression and fear.
(b) Breathing.
(c) Emotions such as love and joy.
(d) Logical thought processes.

4. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?
(a) The way the floor and walls meet at angles is upsets his sense of balance.
(b) The apparent convergence of the walls in the distance confuses him.
(c) They are no challenge since he remembers how to interpret them from when he used to see.
(d) The feeling of confinement with the walls so close bothers him.

5. What is hard wired into our brains?
(a) Much of what motivates us and drives our behavior.
(b) Things such as breathing and digestion.
(c) Nothing is actually hard wired into our brains.
(d) Only the survival instinct.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?

3. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?

4. What did an autopsy of Whitman find?

5. At what age does Mike May regain his vision?

(see the answer key)

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