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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. What did others say about the incident?
(a) They dismissed it as the rantings of a drunken man, which is a common thing.
(b) They believed the police officer misrepresented the incident.
(c) They believed the actor was under duress and did not mean it.
(d) They said there is no way to know whether the actor believes one way or the other.

2. What studies does Eagleman look at in this chapter?
(a) Studies that look at what people seem to find attractive in others.
(b) Studies about how the brain processes input.
(c) Studies about how one distinguishes one smell from another.
(d) Studies about how one distinguishes one taste from another.

3. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?
(a) Our means of connecting the brain to the heart.
(b) The language of individual, specialized cells.
(c) Our emotional world.
(d) Our own programming language.

4. How do most people perform the motion on question number 62?
(a) They go counter-clockwise.
(b) They turn the wheel slightly to the right, then straighten it out again.
(c) They go clockwise.
(d) They turn the wheel slightly to the left, then straighten it out again.

5. When an action becomes automatic, what part of the brain is controlling it?
(a) It depends upon what the action entails.
(b) The unconscious mind.
(c) The conscious mind.
(d) The superconscious mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most important part of seeing?

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

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

4. How old was Charles Whitman when he died?

5. How is the problem solved?

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