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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much of the activity of our brain does the conscious mind represent?
(a) A small part.
(b) Most of the activity.
(c) About half of the activity.
(d) There is no way of judging that.

2. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?
(a) It is related to the ability to reason abstractly.
(b) You either have the ability at the very beginning or you can never learn it.
(c) It is related to the ability to draw.
(d) It eventually becomes automatic and becomes an unconscious process.

3. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?
(a) A way to manufacture food.
(b) A way to produce energy.
(c) The human genome.
(d) A way to process information.

4. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?
(a) It is a way to tell if the participant is looking directly at the computer screen.
(b) Dilated eyes have nothing to do with the experiment.
(c) It is a measure of the light used.
(d) The men were more attracted to women with dilated eyes.

5. How does the author refer to the brain?
(a) As the guts of the individual life.
(b) As the organ that works in tandem with the heart.
(c) As the mission control center.
(d) As five pounds of power.

6. How does May first react to his new sight?
(a) He blinds himself again.
(b) He is unable to make sense of what he sees.
(c) He is elated and awed.
(d) Since he had seen when he was younger, it was no big deal.

7. 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.

8. How does one blind rock climber use a mechanical device to help climb?
(a) The device latches onto cracks and crevices and the climber follows the rope.
(b) The device beeps in code to say where a usable crack is locate.
(c) There is no such device developed yet; it is in prototype stage.
(d) The device transmits impulses through the climber's tongue.

9. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?
(a) Neurons.
(b) Erythrocytes.
(c) Nephrons.
(d) Hepatic.

10. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?
(a) Someone who closes the eyes for more than a few seconds and then opens them.
(b) Blind people who recover their sight.
(c) Someone who has cataracts removed.
(d) Everyone who is sighted can immediately discern depth and movement.

11. How many connections does a typical neuron make to neighboring neurons?
(a) 10.
(b) 100.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 1,000.

12. What are our brains wired to do as far as complicated tasks are concerned?
(a) To take the task apart and consciously learn it in steps.
(b) Let the unconscious mind perform the task.
(c) To consciously send the task to the unconscious mind to learn and then teach the conscious mind.
(d) Study the task carefully and then consciously decide which part of the brain would be best to perform the task.

13. What is the most important part of seeing?
(a) How seeing enables social interaction.
(b) How one uses the information gained by sight.
(c) What the unconscious brain does with the information.
(d) How seeing stimulates the brain to be more productive.

14. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Jung.
(c) Ericksson.
(d) Freud.

15. What does the device that takes visual input through a camera and translate it into impulses do?
(a) It demonstrates the mechanics of sight.
(b) There is no such machine.
(c) It is a means of giving a computer "sight."
(d) It enables the brain to see without eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?

2. What is the consistency of the brain?

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

4. Why did the subjects say about why they chose the pictures of the women that they did?

5. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?

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