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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 much of the wavelengths of light do our eyes see?
(a) Only a small portion.
(b) Mostly the bands at either end.
(c) Most of it.
(d) Mostly the middle 1/3.

2. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?
(a) Someone who closes the eyes for more than a few seconds and then opens them.
(b) Blind people who recover their sight.
(c) Everyone who is sighted can immediately discern depth and movement.
(d) Someone who has cataracts removed.

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

4. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?
(a) Neither are infallible.
(b) There are thoughts that we cannot think, just as there are wavelengths of light we cannot see.
(c) Both involve the right brain.
(d) Both involve the same area of the left brain.

5. How do sorters learn to do their job?
(a) By reading a how-to book.
(b) By an expert sorter correcting a novice.
(c) By studying videos of how to sort.
(d) By watching experts sort.

Short Answer Questions

1. What assumption does Eagleman dismiss?

2. What does Eagleman think is a good model for how the brain works?

3. What do newborns seem to recognize?

4. What is an animal's ability to choose a course from among competing options and act accordingly?

5. What are we actually unaware of?

(see the answer key)

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