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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 The Testimony of the Senses: What Is Experience Really Like?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how many pounds does a brain weigh?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

2. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?
(a) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.
(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 makes sense of the world in a different way than lifelong sighted people.

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

4. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?
(a) Our emotional world.
(b) Our means of connecting the brain to the heart.
(c) Our own programming language.
(d) The language of individual, specialized cells.

5. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?
(a) People who have had an eye injured and do not see out of it for a while.
(b) Blind people who recover their sight.
(c) People who start wearing glasses.
(d) People who move to a different culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say has happened to complicated processes in his analogy of consciousness?

2. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?

3. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?

4. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?

5. What is another type of brain cell?

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