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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. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?
(a) Our previous experiences.
(b) Our intuition.
(c) Our knowledge.
(d) Our senses.

2. How do sorters learn to do their job?
(a) By reading a how-to book.
(b) By studying videos of how to sort.
(c) By watching experts sort.
(d) By an expert sorter correcting a novice.

3. What creature does Eagleman use as an example of one with an excellent sense of smell?
(a) Cat.
(b) Tiger.
(c) Wolf.
(d) Bloodhound.

4. What question has been addressed by philosophers for ages?
(a) Which came first the genetic tendency or the action that stimulates the gene.
(b) Nature versus nurture.
(c) Whether humans truly have free will.
(d) How much we should be accountable for our actions.

5. What does Eagleman claim most people possess?
(a) A natural tendency to like ourselves.
(b) A natural tendency to dislike ourselves.
(c) A natural tendency to like others.
(d) A natural tendency to dislike ourselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is what a person likes determined?

2. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?

3. What is another type of brain cell?

4. To what do human beings seem to be predisposed without prior learning?

5. When an action becomes automatic, what part of the brain is controlling it?

(see the answer key)

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