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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 turn the wheel slightly to the right, then straighten it out again.
(c) They go clockwise.
(d) They go counter-clockwise.

2. How often does one cell send something to other cells?
(a) Whenever it has the energy to do so.
(b) At least daily.
(c) Hundreds of times per second.
(d) A few times an hour.

3. What does each brain cell send to other cells?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Messages for interpretation.
(c) Electrical impulses.
(d) Food.

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

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

6. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?
(a) The circulatory system.
(b) The heart and brain.
(c) The limbic system.
(d) The nervous system.

7. What seems natural to most people?
(a) Processing physical data.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Seeing.
(d) Believing what we see is real.

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

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

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

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

12. What indicates a state of sexual arousal in women?
(a) It varies individual to individual.
(b) Dilated eyes.
(c) Closed eyes.
(d) Lack of focus.

13. What motion does Eagleman ask his readers to make?
(a) Scribing a square in the air.
(b) A circular motion.
(c) That of the steering wheel of a car when changing lanes to the left.
(d) That of the steering wheel of a car when changing lanes to the right.

14. Why did the subjects say about why they chose the pictures of the women that they did?
(a) The men were not asked why they chose the pictures.
(b) Only two mentioned that they thought women's eyes were sexier dilated.
(c) All the men mentioned the dilated eyes.
(d) They had various reasons but none mentioned dilated eyes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?

3. What does Eagleman claim most people possess?

4. How does the author refer to the brain?

5. What does Eagleman say has happened to complicated processes in his analogy of consciousness?

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