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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 we are at the mercy of?
(a) The unconscious workings of our minds.
(b) Medical advancements.
(c) Our own upbringing.
(d) Fate.

2. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?
(a) 3.
(b) 7.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

3. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?
(a) To show that scribing geometric forms without a point of reference is almost impossible.
(b) To show that the eyes visualize one thing while the brain carries it out another way.
(c) To see how many will accept directions from a book.
(d) To understand the we do many things unconsciously that are difficult to recreate with the conscious mind.

4. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?
(a) Our means of connecting the brain to the heart.
(b) Our emotional world.
(c) The language of individual, specialized cells.
(d) Our own programming language.

5. What do most of us notice in the world around us?
(a) That which impacts our safety.
(b) About ten percent of what is actually there.
(c) Just when something is out of the ordinary.
(d) About ninety percent of what is actually there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does Eagleman describe in illustrating how the mind may be divided?

2. What is difficult to do when it comes to sorting young chickens?

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

4. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?

5. What were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?

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