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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 were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?
(a) The ease at drawing a simple picture they are shown.
(b) The ease at remembering names.
(c) How attractive they found women's faces in photographs they are shown.
(d) How easy it is to solve a given problem.

2. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?
(a) Both involve the same area of the left brain.
(b) Neither are infallible.
(c) There are thoughts that we cannot think, just as there are wavelengths of light we cannot see.
(d) Both involve the right brain.

3. What does Chapter 4 explore?
(a) How the conscious and unconscious minds can be complementary.
(b) The ways our conscious thinking get us in trouble.
(c) The limits to our conscious thinking.
(d) The limits to our unconscious thinking.

4. What were men first shown briefly?
(a) Pictures of cars.
(b) Colors lined up in various orders.
(c) Pictures of women.
(d) Abstract figures.

5. Who is more likely to develop schizophrenia?
(a) Those in highly stressful jobs.
(b) Immigrants to a new country.
(c) Youngest children.
(d) Children born to older parents.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does one blind rock climber use a mechanical device to help climb?

3. What does the amygdala regulate?

4. What question does Eagleman pose about the actor?

5. What are we actually unaware of?

(see the answer key)

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