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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 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.

2. 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) Having the man sing.
(d) Pulling on the tongue in question.

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

4. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?
(a) Our vision can be fooled.
(b) Our sight can be inaccurate.
(c) Our sight can be erratic.
(d) Nothing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say seeing is?

2. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?

3. What is another type of brain cell?

4. What indicates a state of sexual arousal in women?

5. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?

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