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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 was disorienting for May?
(a) The sudden shift of objects in his visual field when he turned his head.
(b) The way colors affected the appearance of shapes.
(c) The way shapes affected the appearance of colors.
(d) The way steps seemed unattached to the earth.

2. When does Arthur Alberts travel from New York to Africa?
(a) 2004.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1949.

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

4. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?

2. How does May first react to his new sight?

3. What is another type of brain cell?

4. What does Eagleman say about people who marry that is related to the idea of implicit egotism?

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

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