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

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

3. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?
(a) It is a way to tell if the participant is looking directly at the computer screen.
(b) It is a measure of the light used.
(c) The men were more attracted to women with dilated eyes.
(d) Dilated eyes have nothing to do with the experiment.

4. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?
(a) To show that scribing geometric forms without a point of reference is almost impossible.
(b) To understand the we do many things unconsciously that are difficult to recreate with the conscious mind.
(c) To show that the eyes visualize one thing while the brain carries it out another way.
(d) To see how many will accept directions from a book.

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

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

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

8. How far in the past do we actually "live"?
(a) A second or two.
(b) We actually live slightly into the future.
(c) Sometimes up to a minute.
(d) A few milliseconds.

9. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?
(a) Because of his love of music.
(b) Because of his love of gadgetry.
(c) To tape his observations.
(d) To tape his last moments if he is dying.

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

11. At what age does Mike May regain his vision?
(a) 23.
(b) 46.
(c) 55.
(d) 32.

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

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

14. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?
(a) Blind people who recover their sight.
(b) Someone who closes the eyes for more than a few seconds and then opens them.
(c) Everyone who is sighted can immediately discern depth and movement.
(d) Someone who has cataracts removed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What gap does Eagleman explore?

2. What does the device that takes visual input through a camera and translate it into impulses do?

3. What seems natural to most people?

4. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?

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

(see the answer keys)

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