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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 the most important part of seeing?
(a) How seeing stimulates the brain to be more productive.
(b) How seeing enables social interaction.
(c) What the unconscious brain does with the information.
(d) How one uses the information gained by sight.

2. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?
(a) 1/10.
(b) 1/15.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 1/20.

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

4. How much of the activity of our brain does the conscious mind represent?
(a) Most of the activity.
(b) A small part.
(c) About half of the activity.
(d) There is no way of judging that.

5. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?
(a) A village.
(b) A city.
(c) A ball team.
(d) A maze.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does each brain cell send to other cells?

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

3. How does the author refer to the brain?

4. What does an experiment that has people associate words such as "like" or "dislike" measure?

5. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?

(see the answer key)

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