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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 is the most important part of seeing?
(a) How seeing enables social interaction.
(b) How one uses the information gained by sight.
(c) How seeing stimulates the brain to be more productive.
(d) What the unconscious brain does with the information.

2. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?
(a) Hundreds of billions.
(b) Trillions of trillions.
(c) Hundreds of thousands.
(d) Hundreds of trillions.

3. At what age does Mike May regain his vision?
(a) 55.
(b) 46.
(c) 32.
(d) 23.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?

2. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?

3. What does the author call self-healing material?

4. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?

5. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?

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