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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 was disorienting for May?
(a) The way colors affected the appearance of shapes.
(b) The way steps seemed unattached to the earth.
(c) The sudden shift of objects in his visual field when he turned his head.
(d) The way shapes affected the appearance of colors.

2. How does the author refer to the brain?
(a) As the guts of the individual life.
(b) As the mission control center.
(c) As five pounds of power.
(d) As the organ that works in tandem with the heart.

3. What does Eagleman say is difficult?
(a) Believing that our unconscious is so aware.
(b) Understanding and accepting that much of our minds is inaccessible to our conscious selves.
(c) Believing that our unconscious is so unaware.
(d) Knowing that we have very little true free will.

4. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?
(a) To show that the eyes visualize one thing while the brain carries it out another way.
(b) To understand the we do many things unconsciously that are difficult to recreate with the conscious mind.
(c) To see how many will accept directions from a book.
(d) To show that scribing geometric forms without a point of reference is almost impossible.

5. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is meant by "implicit egotism"?

2. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?

3. If someone moves slightly towards the word dislike before choosing the word like, what does that indicate?

4. What gap does Eagleman explore?

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

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