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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do some brain scientists propose?
(a) That the brain is able to handle much larger routines than computers.
(b) That the brain may work on numerous smaller routines.
(c) That the brain is not as much like a computer as originally thought.
(d) That computers can mimic the brain in all ways except fine discrimination.

3. From what was Alex suffering at the time?
(a) Serious headaches.
(b) Delusions of grandeur.
(c) Depression.
(d) Eczema.

4. How is the problem solved?
(a) Breaking the task into smaller routines.
(b) Finding how latitude is divided first.
(c) Using skin pads.
(d) Making the recurring numbers bolder.

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

6. What does Eagleman say we cannot choose?
(a) If we want to eat that piece of pie or not.
(b) If we want to commit a murder or not.
(c) If our environment has chemical hazards that could trigger bad behavior.
(d) Our genes or who raises us.

7. What did Whitman indicate in some writings he left behind?
(a) He hated his father.
(b) He suspected he had something wrong with his brain.
(c) He wanted to take others with him so he wouldn't be lonely.
(d) He was sorry he was out of control.

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

9. For what was the actor in #109 arrested in 2006?
(a) Driving while intoxicated.
(b) Bad acting.
(c) Tax evasion.
(d) Wife abuse.

10. At what do babies tend to look?
(a) Their own hands.
(b) The heart are where the sound of the heart beat is.
(c) Hands.
(d) Faces.

11. Which actor does Eagleman discuss at the opening of this chapter?
(a) Mel Gibson.
(b) Jimmy Stewart.
(c) John Wayne.
(d) Brad Pitt.

12. What argument does Eagleman say he is not making?
(a) That we should be working more towards gene manipulation.
(b) That every one must be absolutely accountable.
(c) That those who have a genetic defect that affects their behavior should be more closely monitored.
(d) That no one is responsible for his/her choices.

13. Who obtained a record of the arresting incident?
(a) The Chinese-American Relations Association.
(b) The Anti-defamation League.
(c) A celebrity gossip website.
(d) The Hispanic-American Cultural League.

14. What does Eagleman think is a good model for how the brain works?
(a) A theory called science of mentality.
(b) A concept call indiscriminate separation.
(c) A concept called society of mind.
(d) A theory called particulate mentality.

15. What does Eagleman say about the question as to whether the actor is racist or not?
(a) The question is rhetorical and not important.
(b) The question is fairly black and white.
(c) The question is more complex than either/or.
(d) If the question could be answered, we'd all be in trouble for the way we think.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what do human beings seem to be predisposed without prior learning?

2. What disease does Eagleman mention in support of his argument about free will?

3. What does Eagleman say we cannot think?

4. What did some commentators say about the incident with the actor?

5. How does Eagleman then change the puzzle?

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