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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 were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?
(a) How attractive they found women's faces in photographs they are shown.
(b) The ease at drawing a simple picture they are shown.
(c) How easy it is to solve a given problem.
(d) The ease at remembering names.

2. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?
(a) Our sight can be erratic.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Our sight can be inaccurate.
(d) Our vision can be fooled.

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

4. What does each brain cell send to other cells?
(a) Messages for interpretation.
(b) Electrical impulses.
(c) Oxygen.
(d) Food.

5. How complex is the human brain?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Parts are simple and parts are somewhat complex.
(c) Fairly simple.
(d) Almost unfathomably complex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?

2. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?

3. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?

4. How does Alberts convince one African that the native's tongue is still intact?

5. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?

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