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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 were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?
(a) How attractive they found women's faces in photographs they are shown.
(b) The ease at drawing a simple picture they are shown.
(c) The ease at remembering names.
(d) How easy it is to solve a given problem.

2. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?
(a) It is can wreck havoc on experiments with the unconscious mind.
(b) It is merely a theory that is impossible to prove.
(c) It is impossible to know how much of the egotism is conscious or unconscious.
(d) It is a well-established phenomenon.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?

2. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?

3. What was disorienting for May?

4. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?

5. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?

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