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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 is an animal's ability to choose a course from among competing options and act accordingly?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Awareness.
(d) Consciousness.

2. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?
(a) Trillions of trillions.
(b) Hundreds of billions.
(c) Hundreds of thousands.
(d) Hundreds of trillions.

3. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?
(a) Illustrations of the eye structure.
(b) Illustrations of pictures within pictures.
(c) Illustrations of optical illusions.
(d) Illustrations of how the eye can move too fast to be accurate.

4. What is meant by "implicit egotism"?
(a) The way the ego receives implied beliefs from the unconscious.
(b) The tendency for most people to like themselves.
(c) The belief in psychology that the ego is not real.
(d) The tendency for the ego to determine prejudice.

5. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?
(a) He learns to interpret the world around him except for objects in the distance.
(b) He learns to make sense of the visual world.
(c) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.
(d) He makes sense of the world in a different way than lifelong sighted people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the orbitofrontal cortex?

2. What argument does Eagleman say he is not making?

3. How does the author refer to the brain?

4. How much of the activity of our brain does the conscious mind represent?

5. Of what is the phenomenon of depth being stimulated on a flat page an example?

(see the answer key)

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