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

2. What was disorienting for May?
(a) The way shapes affected the appearance of colors.
(b) The way steps seemed unattached to the earth.
(c) The way colors affected the appearance of shapes.
(d) The sudden shift of objects in his visual field when he turned his head.

3. How does the author describe parts of the brain?
(a) As self-configuring.
(b) As radically different one from the other.
(c) As discrete units that can be individually programmed.
(d) As independent of each other.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?

2. What happens when one's brain changes?

3. What is something the brain has to learn?

4. By what are thoughts underpinned?

5. What is another type of brain cell?

(see the answer key)

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