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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Why Blameworthiness Is the Wrong Question.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Charles Whitman?
(a) A cook at University of Texas.
(b) A Professor at University of San Francisco.
(c) A mass murderer.
(d) A small-time criminal.

2. How did Whitman die?
(a) Electrical shock.
(b) Shot by the police.
(c) Lightening.
(d) Falls out of a tower.

3. What does Eagleman say about the ways to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking?
(a) It is a hit and miss sort of thing.
(b) It is impossible to measure such a thing.
(c) There are ways of measuring without even knowing one is doing so.
(d) Eagleman says he will not go into that idea.

4. What does Eagleman say we cannot choose?
(a) If we want to commit a murder or not.
(b) Our genes or who raises us.
(c) If we want to eat that piece of pie or not.
(d) If our environment has chemical hazards that could trigger bad behavior.

5. What does Eagleman think is a good model for how the brain works?
(a) A concept call indiscriminate separation.
(b) A theory called particulate mentality.
(c) A theory called science of mentality.
(d) A concept called society of mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?

2. What is difficult to do when it comes to sorting young chickens?

3. What question has been addressed by philosophers for ages?

4. What creature does Eagleman use as an example of one with an excellent sense of smell?

5. What was disorienting for May?

(see the answer key)

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