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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 each human brain cell contain in its entirety?
(a) The human genome.
(b) A way to process information.
(c) A way to manufacture food.
(d) A way to produce energy.

2. Why does Eagleman think people find the second puzzle easier to solve?
(a) They were told the second puzzle was easier.
(b) Most people more easily process information framed it in a social context.
(c) They had practice with the first puzzle and it was in their unconscious.
(d) They were told the first puzzle was easier.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?

2. If someone moves slightly towards the word dislike before choosing the word like, what does that indicate?

3. What is the significant fact in the two showings to the men?

4. What are those people called who sort out baby chickens by their gender?

5. What did the group do with the arresting record?

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