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

2. What indicates a state of sexual arousal in women?
(a) It varies individual to individual.
(b) Dilated eyes.
(c) Closed eyes.
(d) Lack of focus.

3. What seems natural to most people?
(a) Seeing.
(b) Believing what we see is real.
(c) Processing physical data.
(d) Thinking.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author refer to the brain?

2. By what are thoughts underpinned?

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

4. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?

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

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