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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Why Blameworthiness Is the Wrong Question.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who obtained a record of the arresting incident?
(a) The Anti-defamation League.
(b) The Hispanic-American Cultural League.
(c) A celebrity gossip website.
(d) The Chinese-American Relations Association.

2. What happens when one's brain changes?
(a) The person cannot change.
(b) The person can become a genius.
(c) The person is no longer functional.
(d) The person changes.

3. What are two examples of optical illusions?
(a) A square being a rectangle.
(b) A round circle looking elliptical.
(c) Red looking black.
(d) The apparent motion of stationary images and the apparent change in size of images when their backgrounds are changed.

4. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?
(a) To tape his last moments if he is dying.
(b) To tape his observations.
(c) Because of his love of gadgetry.
(d) Because of his love of music.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had people noticed about Whitman in some months before his death?

2. Why did the subjects say about why they chose the pictures of the women that they did?

3. From what does Eagleman say our ultimate behavior springs?

4. What are our brains wired to do as far as complicated tasks are concerned?

5. What do we perceive about the limits of our conscious knowledge?

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