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

2. What does Alberts record?
(a) The sounds of many bird species.
(b) The sounds of the lions.
(c) The sounds of the insect world of Africa.
(d) African music.

3. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?
(a) A way to process information.
(b) A way to produce energy.
(c) A way to manufacture food.
(d) The human genome.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?

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

5. What does each brain cell send to other cells?

(see the answer key)

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