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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. How does May first react to his new sight?
(a) He blinds himself again.
(b) He is unable to make sense of what he sees.
(c) He is elated and awed.
(d) Since he had seen when he was younger, it was no big deal.

2. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?
(a) A camera.
(b) A kaleidoscope.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) A video recorder.

3. What does the device that takes visual input through a camera and translate it into impulses do?
(a) There is no such machine.
(b) It enables the brain to see without eyes.
(c) It demonstrates the mechanics of sight.
(d) It is a means of giving a computer "sight."

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

5. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?
(a) Before the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(b) As soon as the brain processes the sound of the ball's approach.
(c) As soon as the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(d) The instant they hear the ball leave the pitcher's hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?

2. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?

3. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?

4. Why did the subjects say about why they chose the pictures of the women that they did?

5. How complex is the human brain?

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