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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The Kinds of Thoughts That Are Thinkable.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?
(a) Hundreds of billions.
(b) Hundreds of trillions.
(c) Hundreds of thousands.
(d) Trillions of trillions.

2. What were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?
(a) The ease at remembering names.
(b) How easy it is to solve a given problem.
(c) The ease at drawing a simple picture they are shown.
(d) How attractive they found women's faces in photographs they are shown.

3. What is the most important part of seeing?
(a) What the unconscious brain does with the information.
(b) How one uses the information gained by sight.
(c) How seeing enables social interaction.
(d) How seeing stimulates the brain to be more productive.

4. How complex is the human brain?
(a) Parts are simple and parts are somewhat complex.
(b) Almost unfathomably complex.
(c) Fairly simple.
(d) No one knows.

5. How much of the wavelengths of light do our eyes see?
(a) Mostly the middle 1/3.
(b) Most of it.
(c) Mostly the bands at either end.
(d) Only a small portion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?

2. What do we perceive about the limits of our conscious knowledge?

3. What does the logic puzzle that Eagleman challenges readers with involve?

4. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?

5. What does the author say lies underneath one's exterior looks?

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