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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. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?
(a) A city.
(b) A maze.
(c) A ball team.
(d) A village.

2. How complex is the human brain?
(a) Fairly simple.
(b) Parts are simple and parts are somewhat complex.
(c) Almost unfathomably complex.
(d) No one knows.

3. What does each brain cell send to other cells?
(a) Messages for interpretation.
(b) Food.
(c) Electrical impulses.
(d) Oxygen.

4. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?
(a) The human genome.
(b) A way to produce energy.
(c) A way to process information.
(d) A way to manufacture food.

5. What is something the brain has to learn?
(a) Thinking.
(b) Making contacts among synapses.
(c) Seeing.
(d) Moving electrical impulses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?

2. What is the consistency of the brain?

3. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?

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

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

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