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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease does Eagleman mention in support of his argument about free will?
(a) Autism.
(b) Tourette's Syndrome.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) OCD.

2. What is the orbitofrontal cortex?
(a) The area of the brain where the spinal column meets the brain tissue.
(b) The area of the brain that often determines psychosis.
(c) The area of the brain affected by Alex's tumor.
(d) The area of the brain that determines right or left handedness.

3. What had people noticed about Whitman in some months before his death?
(a) He seemed full of hope.
(b) His behavior had changed.
(c) He seemed to feel much despair.
(d) He seemed the same as always.

4. What does Eagleton think many sub-routines of our mind are doing?
(a) Competing with each other.
(b) Leading and following each other.
(c) Complementing each other.
(d) Clashing with each other.

5. What did the group do with the arresting record?
(a) Tried to get rid of the record.
(b) Bribed an officer to destroy the record.
(c) Made it public.
(d) Confronted the actor in person on live television.

6. How did Whitman die?
(a) Electrical shock.
(b) Lightening.
(c) Falls out of a tower.
(d) Shot by the police.

7. What do we perceive about the limits of our conscious knowledge?
(a) Our conscious mind in its egoistic state does not believe there are limits.
(b) We know there are limits but don't always recognize when we've reached one.
(c) We do not know what the limits of our conscious knowledge is.
(d) We know there are no limits but we often act as if there are.

8. How does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?
(a) Men are attracted to women who have the same ethnic looks as themselves.
(b) The cars that men chose were the ones that had the most attractive women standing by them.
(c) It goes back to the early history of humankind.
(d) It is socially ingrained from advertisements.

9. What is an animal's ability to choose a course from among competing options and act accordingly?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Awareness.

10. What does the logic puzzle that Eagleman challenges readers with involve?
(a) Light and dark shapes.
(b) Shapes and numbers.
(c) Colors and shapes.
(d) Colors and numbers.

11. How much of the wavelengths of light do our eyes see?
(a) Only a small portion.
(b) Most of it.
(c) Mostly the middle 1/3.
(d) Mostly the bands at either end.

12. What does Eagleman say the majority of criminals are?
(a) Male.
(b) Unbalanced in their psychological state.
(c) Female.
(d) Helpless victims of their brain chemistry.

13. What assumption is at the core of the American legal system?
(a) That some people's insanity is not their fault.
(b) That there are some people who can choose no other than a life of crime.
(c) That we each have free will.
(d) That some people are genetically insane.

14. Where does the incident take place that Eagleman describe from 1966?
(a) Orlando.
(b) Austin.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Atlanta.

15. What question has been addressed by philosophers for ages?
(a) Which came first the genetic tendency or the action that stimulates the gene.
(b) Nature versus nurture.
(c) How much we should be accountable for our actions.
(d) Whether humans truly have free will.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were men then shown for a longer period of time?

2. What happens when a rat is presented with a similar dilemma as the one in question 129?

3. What does Eagleman say we cannot think?

4. How does Eagleton support his statement about what is or is not hard wired into our brains?

5. From what does Eagleman say our ultimate behavior springs?

(see the answer keys)

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