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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. When does the conscious mind actively train the unconscious mind?
(a) When the unconscious mind shows signs of dysfunction.
(b) When the conscious mind shows signs of dysfunction.
(c) When there is a repetitive task to learn that the unconscious can do efficently.
(d) When there is a complicated task to learn.

2. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?
(a) It is a well-established phenomenon.
(b) It is can wreck havoc on experiments with the unconscious mind.
(c) It is impossible to know how much of the egotism is conscious or unconscious.
(d) It is merely a theory that is impossible to prove.

3. What example does Eagleman offer to illustrate how sub-routines of our mind work?
(a) A person both wanting and not wanting a piece of cake.
(b) A person both wanting and not wanting to move.
(c) A person both wanting and not wanting to exercise.
(d) A person both wanting and not wanting a new job.

4. What is something the brain has to learn?
(a) Making contacts among synapses.
(b) Seeing.
(c) Moving electrical impulses.
(d) Thinking.

5. What did Whitman indicate in some writings he left behind?
(a) He wanted to take others with him so he wouldn't be lonely.
(b) He hated his father.
(c) He was sorry he was out of control.
(d) He suspected he had something wrong with his brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far in the past do we actually "live"?

2. What was disorienting for May?

3. What do we perceive about the limits of our conscious knowledge?

4. Upon what does cocaine act in the brain.

5. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?

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