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

2. What is exceptional about the creature mentioned in question 89?
(a) They can smell odors after weeks have passed.
(b) They can smell the fleas on them.
(c) They can smell an odor on the air even after several days.
(d) They can sense a whole range of odors that human beings cannot sense.

3. What do newborns seem to recognize?
(a) The sound of their mothers' voices.
(b) The smell of their mothers.
(c) The feel of their mothers' skin.
(d) Their existence as separate from others around them.

4. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?
(a) Vision is a very simple process of mirrors and reflections.
(b) Vision is an extremely complex process.
(c) It can take place while easily freeing the brain for other matters.
(d) The brain is so capable, it doesn't take much of it for any sensory input.

5. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?
(a) Neither are infallible.
(b) Both involve the right brain.
(c) Both involve the same area of the left brain.
(d) There are thoughts that we cannot think, just as there are wavelengths of light we cannot see.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say about people who marry that is related to the idea of implicit egotism?

2. How does Eagleton support his statement about what is or is not hard wired into our brains?

3. About how many pounds does a brain weigh?

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

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

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