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

2. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?
(a) The men were more attracted to women with dilated eyes.
(b) Dilated eyes have nothing to do with the experiment.
(c) It is a way to tell if the participant is looking directly at the computer screen.
(d) It is a measure of the light used.

3. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?
(a) He makes sense of the world in a different way than lifelong sighted people.
(b) He learns to make sense of the visual world.
(c) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.
(d) He learns to interpret the world around him except for objects in the distance.

4. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?
(a) The limbic system.
(b) The circulatory system.
(c) The nervous system.
(d) The heart and brain.

5. What are two examples of optical illusions?
(a) A round circle looking elliptical.
(b) A square being a rectangle.
(c) Red looking black.
(d) The apparent motion of stationary images and the apparent change in size of images when their backgrounds are changed.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many pounds does a brain weigh?

2. By what are thoughts underpinned?

3. What is the most important part of seeing?

4. What does Eagleman say seeing is?

5. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?

(see the answer key)

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