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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 There's Someone In My Head, But It's Not Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?
(a) As soon as the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(b) Before 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.

2. When does Arthur Alberts travel from New York to Africa?
(a) 1949.
(b) 2004.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1997.

3. How does Alberts convince one African that the native's tongue is still intact?
(a) Having the man hold his tongue and try to talk.
(b) Using a mirror.
(c) Pulling on the tongue in question.
(d) Having the man sing.

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

5. How much of the activity of our brain does the conscious mind represent?
(a) About half of the activity.
(b) Most of the activity.
(c) A small part.
(d) There is no way of judging that.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what are thoughts underpinned?

2. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?

3. What does the author call self-healing material?

4. How does the author describe parts of the brain?

5. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?

(see the answer key)

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