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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 does Eagleman say we cannot think?
(a) Something that is contrary to the implicit ego.
(b) Abstract ideas in a third dimension.
(c) Some thoughts.
(d) There is nothing we cannot think.

2. What does Eagleman say a man named Alex started demonstrating?
(a) A significant change in his television habits.
(b) An unusual mathematical talent.
(c) An unusual musical talent.
(d) A significant change in his sexual preferences.

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) It is socially ingrained from advertisements.
(c) Men are attracted to women who have the same ethnic looks as themselves.
(d) The cars that men chose were the ones that had the most attractive women standing by them.

4. To what do human beings seem to be predisposed without prior learning?
(a) To be attracted to faces.
(b) To want to understand what motivates our desires.
(c) To understand what motivates our desires.
(d) To be attracted to voices.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman think some people would have said about Whitman had he lived?

2. From what was Alex suffering at the time?

3. What do most of us notice in the world around us?

4. What is the significant fact in the two showings to the men?

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

(see the answer key)

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