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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?
(a) Prejudice can be hidden in the unconscious.
(b) It shows how sight is both an unconscious and conscious action.
(c) It demonstrates how sight affects conscious choices.
(d) The conscious mind might be prejudice but most will not acknowledge their feelings.

2. What gap does Eagleman explore?
(a) Between what your brain knows and your mind is capable of accessing.
(b) Between what you want to see and what is actually there.
(c) Between what your brain receives in impulses and what it can interpret.
(d) Between what your eyes see and what your brain shows you.

3. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?
(a) Hundreds of thousands.
(b) Hundreds of billions.
(c) Trillions of trillions.
(d) Hundreds of trillions.

4. What does Eagleman say has happened to complicated processes in his analogy of consciousness?
(a) They have been compressed to dots.
(b) They have been jumbled into split images.
(c) The processes have been compressed into headlines.
(d) They have been compressed from novels to short stores.

5. When does Arthur Alberts travel from New York to Africa?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1949.
(d) 2004.

6. What does Alberts record?
(a) African music.
(b) The sounds of the lions.
(c) The sounds of the insect world of Africa.
(d) The sounds of many bird species.

7. What does Eagleman say can get in the way of our efficiency?
(a) Other people's opinions.
(b) Other people's ideas of how something should be done.
(c) Our own tunnel vision.
(d) Being conscious of our actions.

8. How does Alberts convince one African that the native's tongue is still intact?
(a) Using a mirror.
(b) Pulling on the tongue in question.
(c) Having the man sing.
(d) Having the man hold his tongue and try to talk.

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

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

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

12. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?
(a) People who have had an eye injured and do not see out of it for a while.
(b) People who move to a different culture.
(c) People who start wearing glasses.
(d) Blind people who recover their sight.

13. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?
(a) The eyes both work the same in both groups.
(b) The formerly blind person's eyes often only work in strong light.
(c) The person who is sighted from birth can see better in low light.
(d) The formerly blind person's eyes often do not work in tandem.

14. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?
(a) The feeling of confinement with the walls so close bothers him.
(b) The apparent convergence of the walls in the distance confuses him.
(c) The way the floor and walls meet at angles is upsets his sense of balance.
(d) They are no challenge since he remembers how to interpret them from when he used to see.

15. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?
(a) Illustrations of how the eye can move too fast to be accurate.
(b) Illustrations of the eye structure.
(c) Illustrations of pictures within pictures.
(d) Illustrations of optical illusions.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what are thoughts underpinned?

2. What does Eagleman say is the correct way to do this motion?

3. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?

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

5. If someone moves slightly towards the word dislike before choosing the word like, what does that indicate?

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