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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 does the author describe parts of the brain?
(a) As self-configuring.
(b) As discrete units that can be individually programmed.
(c) As independent of each other.
(d) As radically different one from the other.

2. How does one blind rock climber use a mechanical device to help climb?
(a) There is no such device developed yet; it is in prototype stage.
(b) The device latches onto cracks and crevices and the climber follows the rope.
(c) The device transmits impulses through the climber's tongue.
(d) The device beeps in code to say where a usable crack is locate.

3. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?
(a) The full story.
(b) The way the images are bounced through the mind like light in a camera.
(c) The way the images are recorded as fact but much more exists that the video camera does not capture.
(d) The way the images fit together.

4. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?
(a) Hundreds of thousands.
(b) Hundreds of billions.
(c) Hundreds of trillions.
(d) Trillions of trillions.

5. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?
(a) To understand the we do many things unconsciously that are difficult to recreate with the conscious mind.
(b) To show that scribing geometric forms without a point of reference is almost impossible.
(c) To see how many will accept directions from a book.
(d) To show that the eyes visualize one thing while the brain carries it out another way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when one's brain changes?

2. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?

3. Why did the subjects say about why they chose the pictures of the women that they did?

4. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?

5. What is something the brain has to learn?

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