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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. To what do human beings seem to be predisposed without prior learning?
(a) To be attracted to faces.
(b) To understand what motivates our desires.
(c) To be attracted to voices.
(d) To want to understand what motivates our desires.

2. How does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?
(a) It goes back to the early history of humankind.
(b) The cars that men chose were the ones that had the most attractive women standing by them.
(c) Men are attracted to women who have the same ethnic looks as themselves.
(d) It is socially ingrained from advertisements.

3. What had people noticed about Whitman in some months before his death?
(a) He seemed full of hope.
(b) He seemed to feel much despair.
(c) His behavior had changed.
(d) He seemed the same as always.

4. What is an animal's ability to choose a course from among competing options and act accordingly?
(a) Awareness.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Wisdom.

5. Which actor does Eagleman discuss at the opening of this chapter?
(a) Mel Gibson.
(b) Jimmy Stewart.
(c) Brad Pitt.
(d) John Wayne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say a man named Alex started demonstrating?

2. Of what is the phenomenon of depth being stimulated on a flat page an example?

3. What does Eagleman say about the question as to whether the actor is racist or not?

4. What does Eagleman say seeing is?

5. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?

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