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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is something the brain has to learn?
(a) Thinking.
(b) Moving electrical impulses.
(c) Making contacts among synapses.
(d) Seeing.

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

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

4. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

5. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?
(a) It is a well-established phenomenon.
(b) It is merely a theory that is impossible to prove.
(c) It is can wreck havoc on experiments with the unconscious mind.
(d) It is impossible to know how much of the egotism is conscious or unconscious.

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

7. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?
(a) He learns to interpret the world around him except for objects in the distance.
(b) He makes sense of the world in a different way than lifelong sighted people.
(c) He learns to make sense of the visual world.
(d) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.

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

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

10. What does the author call self-healing material?
(a) The skin.
(b) Bones.
(c) The brain.
(d) Internal organs.

11. What happens when one's brain changes?
(a) The person is no longer functional.
(b) The person cannot change.
(c) The person can become a genius.
(d) The person changes.

12. 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) It is a means of giving a computer "sight."
(c) There is no such machine.
(d) It enables the brain to see without eyes.

13. 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) He is elated and awed.
(d) Since he had seen when he was younger, it was no big deal.

14. What does an experiment that has people associate words such as "like" or "dislike" measure?
(a) Preferences for certain cars.
(b) Prejudicial feelings about people from certain countries.
(c) Prejudicial feelings about different reaces.
(d) Preferences for certain flavors of ice cream

15. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?
(a) Our own programming language.
(b) Our means of connecting the brain to the heart.
(c) The language of individual, specialized cells.
(d) Our emotional world.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?

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

3. At what age does Mike May regain his vision?

4. What is another type of brain cell?

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

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