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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 Life After the Monarchy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What assumption does Eagleman dismiss?
(a) That people have control over their behavior not matter what.
(b) That the brain's health affects intelligence.
(c) That all people are equally equipped to make sound and rational decisions.
(d) That the brain is able to heal itself of most problems.

2. What is the consistency of the brain?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Milk.
(c) Jello.
(d) Bread.

3. What had people noticed about Whitman in some months before his death?
(a) He seemed full of hope.
(b) He seemed the same as always.
(c) His behavior had changed.
(d) He seemed to feel much despair.

4. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?
(a) To understand the we do many things unconsciously that are difficult to recreate with the conscious mind.
(b) To show that scribing geometric forms without a point of reference is almost impossible.
(c) To see how many will accept directions from a book.
(d) To show that the eyes visualize one thing while the brain carries it out another way.

5. What does Eagleman think is a good model for how the brain works?
(a) A concept called society of mind.
(b) A theory called science of mentality.
(c) A concept call indiscriminate separation.
(d) A theory called particulate mentality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does dopamine do?

2. What example does Eagleman offer to illustrate how sub-routines of our mind work?

3. What is something the brain has to learn?

4. What is the significant fact in the two showings to the men?

5. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?

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