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

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

3. What are we actually unaware of?
(a) What is happening.
(b) The small nuances.
(c) Subtleties of change.
(d) What is happening in real time.

4. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?
(a) People who start wearing glasses.
(b) People who have had an eye injured and do not see out of it for a while.
(c) People who move to a different culture.
(d) Blind people who recover their sight.

5. What does each brain cell send to other cells?
(a) Electrical impulses.
(b) Messages for interpretation.
(c) Oxygen.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?

2. What seems natural to most people?

3. What do most of us notice in the world around us?

4. What is meant by "implicit egotism"?

5. What is another type of brain cell?

(see the answer key)

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