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

2. What is another type of brain cell?
(a) Leukocytes.
(b) Neutrophils.
(c) Glia.
(d) Nephrons.

3. Why did the subjects say about why they chose the pictures of the women that they did?
(a) Only two mentioned that they thought women's eyes were sexier dilated.
(b) They had various reasons but none mentioned dilated eyes.
(c) All the men mentioned the dilated eyes.
(d) The men were not asked why they chose the pictures.

4. 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.

5. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Our vision can be fooled.
(c) Our sight can be inaccurate.
(d) Our sight can be erratic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?

2. What does the author say lies underneath one's exterior looks?

3. What does Eagleman say seeing is?

4. How is what a person likes determined?

5. At what age does Mike May regain his vision?

(see the answer key)

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