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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 is one of the types of cells in the brain?
(a) Nephrons.
(b) Neurons.
(c) Erythrocytes.
(d) Hepatic.

2. Why does Eagleman think people find the second puzzle easier to solve?
(a) They were told the first puzzle was easier.
(b) They had practice with the first puzzle and it was in their unconscious.
(c) They were told the second puzzle was easier.
(d) Most people more easily process information framed it in a social context.

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

4. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?
(a) The apparent convergence of the walls in the distance confuses him.
(b) The way the floor and walls meet at angles is upsets his sense of balance.
(c) The feeling of confinement with the walls so close bothers him.
(d) They are no challenge since he remembers how to interpret them from when he used to see.

5. How does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?
(a) The cars that men chose were the ones that had the most attractive women standing by them.
(b) It goes back to the early history of humankind.
(c) Men are attracted to women who have the same ethnic looks as themselves.
(d) It is socially ingrained from advertisements.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?

2. What does Eagleton point out in the beginning of the chapter about our senses?

3. How many connections does a typical neuron make to neighboring neurons?

4. What do newborns seem to recognize?

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

(see the answer key)

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