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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 does Eagleman say seeing is?
(a) An overrated skill.
(b) A skill that will someday be obsolete.
(c) A complex series of lower and higher mental processes.
(d) An ability that is easy to mimic with computers.

2. What creature does Eagleman use as an example of one with an excellent sense of smell?
(a) Wolf.
(b) Bloodhound.
(c) Tiger.
(d) Cat.

3. What does Eagleman say the majority of criminals are?
(a) Male.
(b) Unbalanced in their psychological state.
(c) Helpless victims of their brain chemistry.
(d) Female.

4. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?
(a) The way the images are bounced through the mind like light in a camera.
(b) The way the images fit together.
(c) The way the images are recorded as fact but much more exists that the video camera does not capture.
(d) The full story.

5. What can insects do that human beings cannot do?
(a) They can see both sound and light.
(b) Insects can see wavelengths we cannot see.
(c) They can hear light as well as see it.
(d) They can see the entire spectrum of light.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the most important part of seeing?

3. What type of accident does Phineas Gage survive?

4. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?

5. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?

(see the answer key)

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