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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are those people called who sort out baby chickens by their gender?
(a) They do not have a name.
(b) Sorters.
(c) Chickeners.
(d) Chicken sexers.

3. How do most people perform the motion on question number 62?
(a) They turn the wheel slightly to the left, then straighten it out again.
(b) They go clockwise.
(c) They go counter-clockwise.
(d) They turn the wheel slightly to the right, then straighten it out again.

4. When an action becomes automatic, what part of the brain is controlling it?
(a) The conscious mind.
(b) It depends upon what the action entails.
(c) The superconscious mind.
(d) The unconscious mind.

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

6. What is another type of brain cell?
(a) Neutrophils.
(b) Glia.
(c) Nephrons.
(d) Leukocytes.

7. What is the consistency of the brain?
(a) Jello.
(b) Peanut butter.
(c) Milk.
(d) Bread.

8. How does the author describe parts of the brain?
(a) As independent of each other.
(b) As discrete units that can be individually programmed.
(c) As self-configuring.
(d) As radically different one from the other.

9. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?
(a) A video recorder.
(b) A kaleidoscope.
(c) A camera.
(d) A newspaper.

10. How complex is the human brain?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Parts are simple and parts are somewhat complex.
(c) Fairly simple.
(d) Almost unfathomably complex.

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

12. What are two examples of optical illusions?
(a) A round circle looking elliptical.
(b) Red looking black.
(c) The apparent motion of stationary images and the apparent change in size of images when their backgrounds are changed.
(d) A square being a rectangle.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does May first react to his new sight?

2. What was disorienting for May?

3. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?

4. About how many pounds does a brain weigh?

5. What does Eagleman claim most people possess?

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