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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 has happened to complicated processes in his analogy of consciousness?
(a) The processes have been compressed into headlines.
(b) They have been jumbled into split images.
(c) They have been compressed to dots.
(d) They have been compressed from novels to short stores.

2. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?
(a) A way to produce energy.
(b) A way to process information.
(c) The human genome.
(d) A way to manufacture food.

3. At what do babies tend to look?
(a) Hands.
(b) Faces.
(c) The heart are where the sound of the heart beat is.
(d) Their own hands.

4. What was one routine in charge of?
(a) Writing down each degree of latitude.
(b) Recording moisture readings.
(c) Finding the block.
(d) Spotting the numbers.

5. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?
(a) The way the floor and walls meet at angles is upsets his sense of balance.
(b) The feeling of confinement with the walls so close bothers him.
(c) They are no challenge since he remembers how to interpret them from when he used to see.
(d) The apparent convergence of the walls in the distance confuses him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say we cannot choose?

2. What is something the brain has to learn?

3. What disease does Eagleman mention in support of his argument about free will?

4. About how many pounds does a brain weigh?

5. What does Eagleman say we cannot think?

(see the answer key)

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