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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. How does Eagleman then change the puzzle?
(a) He makes it about breeds of cats.
(b) He makes it about people and their occupations.
(c) He makes it about breeds of dogs.
(d) He makes it about people and their ages.

2. How does Eagleton support his statement about what is or is not hard wired into our brains?
(a) He provides several examples.
(b) He says he cannot support it since it is only theoretical.
(c) He has the reader do an experiement on their own mind.
(d) He says the reader must take his word on it.

3. What does Eagleman say about people who marry that is related to the idea of implicit egotism?
(a) That people who possess little ego tend not to marry.
(b) That one marries someone whose egotism reflects their own feelings about themselves.
(c) That the number of people who marry people whose first names begin with the same letter as their own is statistically significant.
(d) That people who marry seem to suffer less from implicit egotism.

4. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?
(a) It is a measure of the light used.
(b) It is a way to tell if the participant is looking directly at the computer screen.
(c) Dilated eyes have nothing to do with the experiment.
(d) The men were more attracted to women with dilated eyes.

5. What does the author call self-healing material?
(a) The brain.
(b) Bones.
(c) The skin.
(d) Internal organs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do sorters learn to do their job?

2. How is what a person likes determined?

3. What does Eagleman say about the question as to whether the actor is racist or not?

4. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?

5. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?

(see the answer key)

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