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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Eagleman say about people who marry that is related to the idea of implicit egotism?
(a) That one marries someone whose egotism reflects their own feelings about themselves.
(b) That people who marry seem to suffer less from implicit egotism.
(c) That people who possess little ego tend not to marry.
(d) That the number of people who marry people whose first names begin with the same letter as their own is statistically significant.

3. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?
(a) 1/10.
(b) 1/15.
(c) 1/20.
(d) 1/3.

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

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

6. What does each brain cell send to other cells?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Electrical impulses.
(c) Food.
(d) Messages for interpretation.

7. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?
(a) It uses a series of electrodes on the back that pulsed in different ways according to the person's proximity to objects.
(b) It pushes the person in one direction or another when it senses an obstacle.
(c) It beeps when its sensors notice an object in the person's path.
(d) It gives a slight electrical shock to the person's arm where it is attached.

8. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?
(a) They are no challenge since he remembers how to interpret them from when he used to see.
(b) The way the floor and walls meet at angles is upsets his sense of balance.
(c) The feeling of confinement with the walls so close bothers him.
(d) The apparent convergence of the walls in the distance confuses him.

9. What does Eagleman say seeing is?
(a) An overrated skill.
(b) A skill that will someday be obsolete.
(c) A complex series of lower and higher mental processes.
(d) An ability that is easy to mimic with computers.

10. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?
(a) It demonstrates how sight affects conscious choices.
(b) Prejudice can be hidden in the unconscious.
(c) The conscious mind might be prejudice but most will not acknowledge their feelings.
(d) It shows how sight is both an unconscious and conscious action.

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

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

13. Of what is the phenomenon of depth being stimulated on a flat page an example?
(a) Third dimension painting.
(b) The hand is quicker than the eye.
(c) Optical illusions.
(d) Magic.

14. What does Eagleman say about the ways to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking?
(a) Eagleman says he will not go into that idea.
(b) There are ways of measuring without even knowing one is doing so.
(c) It is impossible to measure such a thing.
(d) It is a hit and miss sort of thing.

15. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?
(a) Ericksson.
(b) Freud.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Jung.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does an experiment that has people associate words such as "like" or "dislike" measure?

2. What indicates a state of sexual arousal in women?

3. How does the author describe parts of the brain?

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

5. What would happen if the people actually performed this motion in reality?

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