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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?
(a) People who have had an eye injured and do not see out of it for a while.
(b) Blind people who recover their sight.
(c) People who move to a different culture.
(d) People who start wearing glasses.

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

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

4. How does the author describe parts of the brain?
(a) As self-configuring.
(b) As independent of each other.
(c) As radically different one from the other.
(d) As discrete units that can be individually programmed.

5. Why did the subjects say about why they chose the pictures of the women that they did?
(a) They had various reasons but none mentioned dilated eyes.
(b) All the men mentioned the dilated eyes.
(c) The men were not asked why they chose the pictures.
(d) Only two mentioned that they thought women's eyes were sexier dilated.

6. 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 latches onto cracks and crevices and the climber follows the rope.
(c) The device transmits impulses through the climber's tongue.
(d) The device beeps in code to say where a usable crack is locate.

7. What gap does Eagleman explore?
(a) Between what you want to see and what is actually there.
(b) Between what your brain knows and your mind is capable of accessing.
(c) Between what your eyes see and what your brain shows you.
(d) Between what your brain receives in impulses and what it can interpret.

8. 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.

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

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

11. What does the author say lies underneath one's exterior looks?
(a) A simple network of interlocking pieces.
(b) A string of double helixes.
(c) A world of its own.
(d) Sophisticated machinery.

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

13. What would happen if the people actually performed this motion in reality?
(a) The car would flip over.
(b) The circle would most likely turn out to be more elliptical.
(c) The car would go off the road.
(d) The square would be a rectangle.

14. 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) Close their eyes and hear the difference.
(d) Intuit the difference with their minds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?

2. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?

3. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?

4. When an action becomes automatic, what part of the brain is controlling it?

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

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