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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 seems natural to most people?
(a) Processing physical data.
(b) Seeing.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Believing what we see is real.

2. What creature does Eagleman use as an example of one with an excellent sense of smell?
(a) Cat.
(b) Bloodhound.
(c) Tiger.
(d) Wolf.

3. By what are thoughts underpinned?
(a) Electrical waves.
(b) Sound.
(c) Fluids.
(d) Physical stuff.

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

5. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?
(a) It shows how sight is both an unconscious and conscious action.
(b) It demonstrates how sight affects conscious choices.
(c) The conscious mind might be prejudice but most will not acknowledge their feelings.
(d) Prejudice can be hidden in the unconscious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the novice sorter eventually do in order to become an expert sorter?

2. What did others say about the incident?

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

4. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?

5. What does Eagleman say seeing is?

(see the answer key)

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