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

2. Where does the incident take place that Eagleman describe from 1966?
(a) Austin.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Orlando.

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

4. What does the device that takes visual input through a camera and translate it into impulses do?
(a) There is no such machine.
(b) It enables the brain to see without eyes.
(c) It demonstrates the mechanics of sight.
(d) It is a means of giving a computer "sight."

5. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?
(a) If the arm moved before or after we thought about moving it.
(b) If our brain or eyes initiated the move.
(c) Why we moved the arm.
(d) The flurry of neural impulses that caused the arm to move.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often does one cell send something to other cells?

2. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?

3. What does Eagleman say a man named Alex started demonstrating?

4. How does the author describe parts of the brain?

5. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?

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