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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 happens to May after some time of having his sight back?
(a) He makes sense of the world in a different way than lifelong sighted people.
(b) He learns to make sense of the visual world.
(c) He learns to interpret the world around him except for objects in the distance.
(d) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.

2. How does one blind rock climber use a mechanical device to help climb?
(a) The device transmits impulses through the climber's tongue.
(b) There is no such device developed yet; it is in prototype stage.
(c) The device latches onto cracks and crevices and the climber follows the rope.
(d) The device beeps in code to say where a usable crack is locate.

3. How far in the past do we actually "live"?
(a) A few milliseconds.
(b) Sometimes up to a minute.
(c) A second or two.
(d) We actually live slightly into the future.

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

5. What does Eagleman say seeing is?
(a) An ability that is easy to mimic with computers.
(b) A skill that will someday be obsolete.
(c) An overrated skill.
(d) A complex series of lower and higher mental processes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was disorienting for May?

2. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?

3. What does the device that takes visual input through a camera and translate it into impulses do?

4. When does Arthur Alberts travel from New York to Africa?

5. How often does one cell send something to other cells?

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