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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?
(a) Hepatic.
(b) Nephrons.
(c) Neurons.
(d) Erythrocytes.

4. How does one blind rock climber use a mechanical device to help climb?
(a) The device transmits impulses through the climber's tongue.
(b) The device beeps in code to say where a usable crack is locate.
(c) The device latches onto cracks and crevices and the climber follows the rope.
(d) There is no such device developed yet; it is in prototype stage.

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

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

7. How do sorters learn to do their job?
(a) By an expert sorter correcting a novice.
(b) By watching experts sort.
(c) By reading a how-to book.
(d) By studying videos of how to sort.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?
(a) Our sight can be erratic.
(b) Our sight can be inaccurate.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Our vision can be fooled.

13. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?
(a) The full story.
(b) The way the images are bounced through the mind like light in a camera.
(c) The way the images are recorded as fact but much more exists that the video camera does not capture.
(d) The way the images fit together.

14. If someone moves slightly towards the word dislike before choosing the word like, what does that indicate?
(a) The experiment is set up poorly.
(b) A conflict between the unconscious and conscious minds.
(c) The experiment is weighted unfairly.
(d) The person is undecided.

15. 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) They had various reasons but none mentioned dilated eyes.
(c) All the men mentioned the dilated eyes.
(d) Only two mentioned that they thought women's eyes were sexier dilated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?

2. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?

3. How far in the past do we actually "live"?

4. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?

5. What does Eagleman say about the ways to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking?

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