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

2. What culture does this actor slander?
(a) Mexican.
(b) Arab.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Chinese.

3. What happens when a rat is presented with a similar dilemma as the one in question 129?
(a) It is incapable of any action.
(b) It often lies down and dies.
(c) It gnaws on its leg.
(d) It often runs around in a circle.

4. How does Eagleton support his statement about what is or is not hard wired into our brains?
(a) He says the reader must take his word on it.
(b) He says he cannot support it since it is only theoretical.
(c) He has the reader do an experiement on their own mind.
(d) He provides several examples.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the consistency of the brain?

3. What does Chapter 4 explore?

4. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?

5. Why does Eagleman think people find the second puzzle easier to solve?

(see the answer key)

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