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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 when one's brain changes?
(a) The person cannot change.
(b) The person is no longer functional.
(c) The person can become a genius.
(d) The person changes.

2. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?
(a) Our previous experiences.
(b) Our senses.
(c) Our knowledge.
(d) Our intuition.

3. 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 move to a different culture.
(d) People who start wearing glasses.

4. What is the consistency of the brain?
(a) Bread.
(b) Jello.
(c) Peanut butter.
(d) Milk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was disorienting for May?

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

3. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?

4. How much of the activity of our brain does the conscious mind represent?

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

(see the answer key)

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