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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 The Brain Is a Team of Rivals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one routine in charge of?
(a) Finding the block.
(b) Recording moisture readings.
(c) Spotting the numbers.
(d) Writing down each degree of latitude.

2. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?
(a) Both involve the same area of the left brain.
(b) Neither are infallible.
(c) Both involve the right brain.
(d) There are thoughts that we cannot think, just as there are wavelengths of light we cannot see.

3. How complex is the human brain?
(a) Fairly simple.
(b) Parts are simple and parts are somewhat complex.
(c) Almost unfathomably complex.
(d) No one knows.

4. What are we actually unaware of?
(a) Subtleties of change.
(b) What is happening in real time.
(c) The small nuances.
(d) What is happening.

5. What is difficult to do when it comes to sorting young chickens?
(a) Determining sex.
(b) Keeping the chickens grouped.
(c) Keeping the mother from pecking you.
(d) Catching a chicken if it gets loose.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Eagleman then change the puzzle?

3. What was disorienting for May?

4. What problem does Eagleman describe in illustrating how the mind may be divided?

5. What are two competing aspects of the brain which Eagleman mentions?

(see the answer key)

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