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

2. What culture does this actor slander?
(a) Arab.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Mexican.

3. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?
(a) The way the images are recorded as fact but much more exists that the video camera does not capture.
(b) The full story.
(c) The way the images are bounced through the mind like light in a camera.
(d) The way the images fit together.

4. What is meant by "implicit egotism"?
(a) The belief in psychology that the ego is not real.
(b) The tendency for most people to like themselves.
(c) The way the ego receives implied beliefs from the unconscious.
(d) The tendency for the ego to determine prejudice.

5. What does Eagleman say seeing is?
(a) A complex series of lower and higher mental processes.
(b) A skill that will someday be obsolete.
(c) An overrated skill.
(d) An ability that is easy to mimic with computers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the nature of the debate about the drunken actor illustrate according to Eagleman?

2. What is the consistency of the brain?

3. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?

4. What does the logic puzzle that Eagleman challenges readers with involve?

5. How does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?

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