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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eagleman say about people who marry that is related to the idea of implicit egotism?
(a) That one marries someone whose egotism reflects their own feelings about themselves.
(b) That the number of people who marry people whose first names begin with the same letter as their own is statistically significant.
(c) That people who marry seem to suffer less from implicit egotism.
(d) That people who possess little ego tend not to marry.

2. 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 optical illusions.
(c) Illustrations of the eye structure.
(d) Illustrations of pictures within pictures.

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

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

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

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

7. Of what is the phenomenon of depth being stimulated on a flat page an example?
(a) The hand is quicker than the eye.
(b) Optical illusions.
(c) Third dimension painting.
(d) Magic.

8. What is difficult to do when it comes to sorting young chickens?
(a) Catching a chicken if it gets loose.
(b) Determining sex.
(c) Keeping the chickens grouped.
(d) Keeping the mother from pecking you.

9. What does Eagleman claim most people possess?
(a) A natural tendency to dislike ourselves.
(b) A natural tendency to like others.
(c) A natural tendency to dislike ourselves.
(d) A natural tendency to like ourselves.

10. What does the novice sorter eventually do in order to become an expert sorter?
(a) Feel the difference in feather softness.
(b) Internalize the task.
(c) Intuit the difference with their minds.
(d) Close their eyes and hear the difference.

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

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

13. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?
(a) Vision is a very simple process of mirrors and reflections.
(b) Vision is an extremely complex process.
(c) It can take place while easily freeing the brain for other matters.
(d) The brain is so capable, it doesn't take much of it for any sensory input.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would happen if the people actually performed this motion in reality?

2. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?

3. What does each brain cell send to other cells?

4. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?

5. How is what a person likes determined?

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