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

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

3. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?
(a) Someone who closes the eyes for more than a few seconds and then opens them.
(b) Someone who has cataracts removed.
(c) Blind people who recover their sight.
(d) Everyone who is sighted can immediately discern depth and movement.

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

5. What seems natural to most people?
(a) Processing physical data.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Believing what we see is real.
(d) Seeing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alberts convince one African that the native's tongue is still intact?

2. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?

3. What does Eagleman say is the correct way to do this motion?

4. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?

5. How much of the activity of our brain does the conscious mind represent?

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