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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 consistency of the brain?
(a) Jello.
(b) Bread.
(c) Peanut butter.
(d) Milk.

2. How much of the activity of our brain does the conscious mind represent?
(a) Most of the activity.
(b) There is no way of judging that.
(c) A small part.
(d) About half of the activity.

3. What was disorienting for May?
(a) The way shapes affected the appearance of colors.
(b) The sudden shift of objects in his visual field when he turned his head.
(c) The way steps seemed unattached to the earth.
(d) The way colors affected the appearance of shapes.

4. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?
(a) The apparent convergence of the walls in the distance confuses him.
(b) The way the floor and walls meet at angles is upsets his sense of balance.
(c) The feeling of confinement with the walls so close bothers him.
(d) They are no challenge since he remembers how to interpret them from when he used to see.

5. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?
(a) People who have had an eye injured and do not see out of it for a while.
(b) Blind people who recover their sight.
(c) People who start wearing glasses.
(d) People who move to a different culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?

2. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?

3. What does the author say lies underneath one's exterior looks?

4. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?

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

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