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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 Mind: The Gap.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?
(a) The apparent convergence of the walls in the distance confuses him.
(b) The way the floor and walls meet at angles is upsets his sense of balance.
(c) They are no challenge since he remembers how to interpret them from when he used to see.
(d) The feeling of confinement with the walls so close bothers him.

2. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?
(a) Our intuition.
(b) Our previous experiences.
(c) Our senses.
(d) Our knowledge.

3. What does Eagleman say about the ways to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking?
(a) It is impossible to measure such a thing.
(b) Eagleman says he will not go into that idea.
(c) It is a hit and miss sort of thing.
(d) There are ways of measuring without even knowing one is doing so.

4. How is what a person likes determined?
(a) Largely by unconscious thinking.
(b) Largely by conscious thinking.
(c) By careful consideration of the conscious mind with input from the unconscious mind.
(d) There is no way to know that.

5. When an action becomes automatic, what part of the brain is controlling it?
(a) The conscious mind.
(b) The superconscious mind.
(c) It depends upon what the action entails.
(d) The unconscious mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?

2. What are our brains wired to do as far as complicated tasks are concerned?

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

4. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?

5. What happens when one's brain changes?

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