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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 does the logic puzzle that Eagleman challenges readers with involve?
(a) Light and dark shapes.
(b) Colors and shapes.
(c) Colors and numbers.
(d) Shapes and numbers.

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

3. How does Eagleman answer the question about whether the actor is racist or not?
(a) One part of his brain is racist and another part is not.
(b) The actor does not know himself if he is racist.
(c) The author does not say as that is not the point of his anecdote.
(d) The actor is definitely racist because one's true beliefs are hard to hide under the influence of alcohol.

4. What are two examples of optical illusions?
(a) A round circle looking elliptical.
(b) Red looking black.
(c) The apparent motion of stationary images and the apparent change in size of images when their backgrounds are changed.
(d) A square being a rectangle.

5. 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 interpret the world around him except for objects in the distance.
(c) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.
(d) He learns to make sense of the visual world.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author refer to the brain?

2. When does the conscious mind actively train the unconscious mind?

3. What happens when a rat is presented with a similar dilemma as the one in question 129?

4. How much of the wavelengths of light do our eyes see?

5. How is the problem solved?

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