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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 is exceptional about the creature mentioned in question 89?
(a) They can smell the fleas on them.
(b) They can smell an odor on the air even after several days.
(c) They can smell odors after weeks have passed.
(d) They can sense a whole range of odors that human beings cannot sense.

2. How does May first react to his new sight?
(a) He blinds himself again.
(b) Since he had seen when he was younger, it was no big deal.
(c) He is elated and awed.
(d) He is unable to make sense of what he sees.

3. How far in the past do we actually "live"?
(a) A second or two.
(b) We actually live slightly into the future.
(c) A few milliseconds.
(d) Sometimes up to a minute.

4. What assumption is at the core of the American legal system?
(a) That some people are genetically insane.
(b) That there are some people who can choose no other than a life of crime.
(c) That we each have free will.
(d) That some people's insanity is not their fault.

5. How does Eagleman compare the conscious mind to the senses in a human being?
(a) Senses do not have limits but the conscious mind does.
(b) Both have limits.
(c) Senses have limits but the conscious mind does not.
(d) Neither have limits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?

2. What is the most important part of seeing?

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

4. What had people noticed about Whitman in some months before his death?

5. What does Eagleton point out in the beginning of the chapter about our senses?

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