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

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

3. By what are thoughts underpinned?
(a) Fluids.
(b) Sound.
(c) Physical stuff.
(d) Electrical waves.

4. How many connections does a typical neuron make to neighboring neurons?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 100.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 10.

5. Of what is the phenomenon of depth being stimulated on a flat page an example?
(a) The hand is quicker than the eye.
(b) Third dimension painting.
(c) Magic.
(d) Optical illusions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are we actually unaware of?

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

3. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?

4. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?

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

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