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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 assumption is at the core of the American legal system?
(a) That some people's insanity is not their fault.
(b) That there are some people who can choose no other than a life of crime.
(c) That some people are genetically insane.
(d) That we each have free will.

2. How do sorters learn to do their job?
(a) By studying videos of how to sort.
(b) By watching experts sort.
(c) By an expert sorter correcting a novice.
(d) By reading a how-to book.

3. What does Eagleton point out in the beginning of the chapter about our senses?
(a) They are limited.
(b) They are an illusion.
(c) They only exist to serve the body.
(d) They only exist to serve the mind.

4. What does Eagleman think some people would have said about Whitman had he lived?
(a) He was totally responsible for his actions no matter what.
(b) He was not responsible for his actions.
(c) He was responsible for his actions because he should have sought medical help.
(d) He was not wholly responsible nor wholly blameless for his actions.

5. For what was the actor in #109 arrested in 2006?
(a) Wife abuse.
(b) Bad acting.
(c) Driving while intoxicated.
(d) Tax evasion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Whitman indicate in some writings he left behind?

2. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?

3. How much of the activity of our brain does the conscious mind represent?

4. How does Eagleton support his statement about what is or is not hard wired into our brains?

5. Who obtained a record of the arresting incident?

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