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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 would happen if the people actually performed this motion in reality?
(a) The car would flip over.
(b) The square would be a rectangle.
(c) The circle would most likely turn out to be more elliptical.
(d) The car would go off the road.

2. What was winning the battle for control of Whitman's behavior in Eagleman's analogy?
(a) Whitman's aggressive zombie programs.
(b) Religion versus science.
(c) Logic versus emotions.
(d) Love versus hate.

3. What does Eagleman say about the ways to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking?
(a) It is a hit and miss sort of thing.
(b) Eagleman says he will not go into that idea.
(c) There are ways of measuring without even knowing one is doing so.
(d) It is impossible to measure such a thing.

4. If someone moves slightly towards the word dislike before choosing the word like, what does that indicate?
(a) A conflict between the unconscious and conscious minds.
(b) The experiment is set up poorly.
(c) The experiment is weighted unfairly.
(d) The person is undecided.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the orbitofrontal cortex?

2. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?

3. How many connections does a typical neuron make to neighboring neurons?

4. Which actor does Eagleman discuss at the opening of this chapter?

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

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