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

2. What did an autopsy of Whitman find?
(a) He was drunk when he died.
(b) He had a brain tumor.
(c) He was on ten different types of medicins.
(d) He was severely abused as a child.

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

4. What does Eagleman say we cannot think?
(a) Some thoughts.
(b) There is nothing we cannot think.
(c) Abstract ideas in a third dimension.
(d) Something that is contrary to the implicit ego.

5. How do some scientist define intelligence?
(a) Many small actions that can be performed without conscious thinking coming together.
(b) The ability to mix emotion with thought.
(c) The ability to make very fine distinctions.
(d) The ability to think more than a couple steps ahead of a task.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What argument does Eagleman say he is not making?

3. What is exceptional about the creature mentioned in question 89?

4. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?

5. What does Eagleton point out in the beginning of the chapter about our senses?

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