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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 much of our brain is devoted to sight?
(a) 1/3.
(b) 1/15.
(c) 1/20.
(d) 1/10.

2. How does the author refer to the brain?
(a) As the mission control center.
(b) As the organ that works in tandem with the heart.
(c) As the guts of the individual life.
(d) As five pounds of power.

3. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?
(a) It beeps when its sensors notice an object in the person's path.
(b) It gives a slight electrical shock to the person's arm where it is attached.
(c) It pushes the person in one direction or another when it senses an obstacle.
(d) It uses a series of electrodes on the back that pulsed in different ways according to the person's proximity to objects.

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

5. How does the author describe parts of the brain?
(a) As self-configuring.
(b) As discrete units that can be individually programmed.
(c) As radically different one from the other.
(d) As independent of each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many pounds does a brain weigh?

2. How complex is the human brain?

3. What do most of us notice in the world around us?

4. What does Eagleman say has happened to complicated processes in his analogy of consciousness?

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

(see the answer key)

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