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

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

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

4. What is the consistency of the brain?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Milk.
(c) Bread.
(d) Jello.

5. How does the author refer to the brain?
(a) As the organ that works in tandem with the heart.
(b) As the mission control center.
(c) As five pounds of power.
(d) As the guts of the individual life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?

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

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

4. What is something the brain has to learn?

5. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?

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