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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 Eagleman then change the puzzle?
(a) He makes it about people and their occupations.
(b) He makes it about breeds of cats.
(c) He makes it about people and their ages.
(d) He makes it about breeds of dogs.

2. How old was Charles Whitman when he died?
(a) 44.
(b) 15.
(c) 25.
(d) 21.

3. What is something the brain has to learn?
(a) Thinking.
(b) Moving electrical impulses.
(c) Making contacts among synapses.
(d) Seeing.

4. What were men first shown briefly?
(a) Colors lined up in various orders.
(b) Pictures of women.
(c) Pictures of cars.
(d) Abstract figures.

5. From what does Eagleman say our ultimate behavior springs?
(a) As a result of our individual intelligence.
(b) As a result of the biological balance within our brain.
(c) As a result of the physical and emotional working in conjunction with each other.
(d) As a result of values taught to us at a young age.

Short Answer Questions

1. What argument does Eagleman say he is not making?

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

3. What is the orbitofrontal cortex?

4. What does Chapter 4 explore?

5. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?

(see the answer key)

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