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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 one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?
(a) It gives a slight electrical shock to the person's arm where it is attached.
(b) It beeps when its sensors notice an object in the person's path.
(c) It uses a series of electrodes on the back that pulsed in different ways according to the person's proximity to objects.
(d) It pushes the person in one direction or another when it senses an obstacle.

2. What does Alberts record?
(a) The sounds of many bird species.
(b) The sounds of the insect world of Africa.
(c) African music.
(d) The sounds of the lions.

3. When an action becomes automatic, what part of the brain is controlling it?
(a) The superconscious mind.
(b) The conscious mind.
(c) The unconscious mind.
(d) It depends upon what the action entails.

4. What does Eagleman claim most people possess?
(a) A natural tendency to dislike ourselves.
(b) A natural tendency to like ourselves.
(c) A natural tendency to dislike ourselves.
(d) A natural tendency to like others.

5. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?
(a) Blind people who recover their sight.
(b) Someone who has cataracts removed.
(c) Someone who closes the eyes for more than a few seconds and then opens them.
(d) Everyone who is sighted can immediately discern depth and movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?

2. What studies does Eagleman look at in this chapter?

3. What is the most important part of seeing?

4. How does Eagleman compare the conscious mind to the senses in a human being?

5. What is difficult to do when it comes to sorting young chickens?

(see the answer key)

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