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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. What does the author say lies underneath one's exterior looks?
(a) Sophisticated machinery.
(b) A string of double helixes.
(c) A world of its own.
(d) A simple network of interlocking pieces.

2. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?
(a) A ball team.
(b) A maze.
(c) A village.
(d) A city.

3. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?
(a) Hundreds of billions.
(b) Trillions of trillions.
(c) Hundreds of thousands.
(d) Hundreds of trillions.

4. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?
(a) The flurry of neural impulses that caused the arm to move.
(b) If our brain or eyes initiated the move.
(c) Why we moved the arm.
(d) If the arm moved before or after we thought about moving it.

5. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?
(a) The nervous system.
(b) The circulatory system.
(c) The limbic system.
(d) The heart and brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far in the past do we actually "live"?

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

3. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?

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

5. What is the consistency of the brain?

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