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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. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?
(a) He makes sense of the world in a different way than lifelong sighted people.
(b) He learns to interpret the world around him except for objects in the distance.
(c) He learns to make sense of the visual world.
(d) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.

2. What is the consistency of the brain?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Bread.
(c) Jello.
(d) Milk.

3. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?
(a) It is related to the ability to reason abstractly.
(b) It is related to the ability to draw.
(c) You either have the ability at the very beginning or you can never learn it.
(d) It eventually becomes automatic and becomes an unconscious process.

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

5. How often does one cell send something to other cells?
(a) A few times an hour.
(b) Hundreds of times per second.
(c) Whenever it has the energy to do so.
(d) At least daily.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is something the brain has to learn?

2. When does Arthur Alberts travel from New York to Africa?

3. To what do human beings seem to be predisposed without prior learning?

4. What motion does Eagleman ask his readers to make?

5. What does Eagleman claim most people possess?

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