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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was disorienting for May?
(a) The way colors affected the appearance of shapes.
(b) The way shapes affected the appearance of colors.
(c) The way steps seemed unattached to the earth.
(d) The sudden shift of objects in his visual field when he turned his head.

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

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

4. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?
(a) A kaleidoscope.
(b) A video recorder.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) A camera.

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

6. What does Eagleman say is the correct way to do this motion?
(a) Steer to the left, then straighten the wheel, then turn to the right.
(b) Use a reference point to scribe the circle.
(c) Steer to the right, then straighten the wheel, then turn to the left.
(d) Move first clockwise, then counterclockwise.

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

8. What is the most important part of seeing?
(a) How seeing enables social interaction.
(b) How one uses the information gained by sight.
(c) How seeing stimulates the brain to be more productive.
(d) What the unconscious brain does with the information.

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

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

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

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

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

14. What are we actually unaware of?
(a) Subtleties of change.
(b) The small nuances.
(c) What is happening.
(d) What is happening in real time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?

2. If someone moves slightly towards the word dislike before choosing the word like, what does that indicate?

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

4. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?

5. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?

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