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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 does Eagleman say is difficult?
(a) Knowing that we have very little true free will.
(b) Believing that our unconscious is so aware.
(c) Believing that our unconscious is so unaware.
(d) Understanding and accepting that much of our minds is inaccessible to our conscious selves.

2. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?
(a) Before the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(b) As soon as the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(c) As soon as the brain processes the sound of the ball's approach.
(d) The instant they hear the ball leave the pitcher's hand.

3. What has a role in how genetic tendencies might be expressed?
(a) Whether a trigger is there to activate a bad behavior gene.
(b) If the genes are from the paternal or maternal side of the child.
(c) A person's upbringing and environment.
(d) Which genes are recessive versus dominant.

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

5. What do newborns seem to recognize?
(a) The feel of their mothers' skin.
(b) Their existence as separate from others around them.
(c) The smell of their mothers.
(d) The sound of their mothers' voices.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did some commentators say about the incident with the actor?

2. What is exceptional about the creature mentioned in question 89?

3. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?

4. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?

5. What does Eagleman say we are at the mercy of?

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