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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 do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?
(a) The full story.
(b) The way the images are bounced through the mind like light in a camera.
(c) The way the images fit together.
(d) The way the images are recorded as fact but much more exists that the video camera does not capture.

2. What can insects do that human beings cannot do?
(a) They can see the entire spectrum of light.
(b) They can see both sound and light.
(c) They can hear light as well as see it.
(d) Insects can see wavelengths we cannot see.

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

4. What did Whitman indicate in some writings he left behind?
(a) He suspected he had something wrong with his brain.
(b) He hated his father.
(c) He wanted to take others with him so he wouldn't be lonely.
(d) He was sorry he was out of control.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Charles Whitman?

2. What does Eagleman say seeing is?

3. What is something the brain has to learn?

4. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?

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

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