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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 is the significant fact in the two showings to the men?
(a) The men invariably chose differently in each situation.
(b) The men seemed to randomly choose preferences no matter the amount of time exposed to the images.
(c) It has little to do with appearance, but more to do with the time they had to look at the pictures.
(d) The men invariably chose the same in either situation.

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

3. What did some commentators say about the incident with the actor?
(a) That the man is truly anti-Semitic and it was revealed when he was drunk.
(b) That the man is truly anti-Hispanic and it was revealed when he was drunk.
(c) That the man is truly anti-Black and it was revealed when he was drunk.
(d) That the man is truly anti-Asian and it was revealed when he was drunk.

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

5. Who obtained a record of the arresting incident?
(a) The Anti-defamation League.
(b) A celebrity gossip website.
(c) The Hispanic-American Cultural League.
(d) The Chinese-American Relations Association.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?

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

3. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?

4. What has a role in how genetic tendencies might be expressed?

5. How does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?

(see the answer key)

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