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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 The Testimony of the Senses: What Is Experience Really Like?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alberts record?
(a) African music.
(b) The sounds of the lions.
(c) The sounds of the insect world of Africa.
(d) The sounds of many bird species.

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

3. What does the author call self-healing material?
(a) Internal organs.
(b) Bones.
(c) The brain.
(d) The skin.

4. What were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?
(a) How easy it is to solve a given problem.
(b) The ease at drawing a simple picture they are shown.
(c) How attractive they found women's faces in photographs they are shown.
(d) The ease at remembering names.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?

2. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?

3. What does Eagleman say has happened to complicated processes in his analogy of consciousness?

4. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?

5. How many connections does a typical neuron make to neighboring neurons?

(see the answer key)

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