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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem does Eagleman describe in illustrating how the mind may be divided?
(a) An early problem in the development of artificial intelligence.
(b) Counting recurring numbers without missing one.
(c) When developing the polygraph, how to distinguish between saying one thing and expressing something different with body language.
(d) The problem of longitude.

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

3. What proved difficult in programming robots?
(a) Having them perform simple tasks.
(b) Having them perform two tasks that were only minutely different.
(c) Having them be able to grasp fine particles.
(d) Having them understand the difference between two degrees of moisture.

4. What does Eagleton point out in the beginning of the chapter about our senses?
(a) They only exist to serve the body.
(b) They are an illusion.
(c) They are limited.
(d) They only exist to serve the mind.

5. What were men first shown briefly?
(a) Pictures of cars.
(b) Abstract figures.
(c) Colors lined up in various orders.
(d) Pictures of women.

6. What do newborns seem to recognize?
(a) Their existence as separate from others around them.
(b) The sound of their mothers' voices.
(c) The smell of their mothers.
(d) The feel of their mothers' skin.

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

8. How do some scientist define intelligence?
(a) The ability to think more than a couple steps ahead of a task.
(b) The ability to mix emotion with thought.
(c) Many small actions that can be performed without conscious thinking coming together.
(d) The ability to make very fine distinctions.

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

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

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

12. What assumption does Eagleman dismiss?
(a) That people have control over their behavior not matter what.
(b) That all people are equally equipped to make sound and rational decisions.
(c) That the brain's health affects intelligence.
(d) That the brain is able to heal itself of most problems.

13. 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.

14. What is exceptional about the creature mentioned in question 89?
(a) They can smell an odor on the air even after several days.
(b) They can sense a whole range of odors that human beings cannot sense.
(c) They can smell the fleas on them.
(d) They can smell odors after weeks have passed.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significant fact in the two showings to the men?

2. What question does Eagleman pose about the actor?

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

4. What did an autopsy of Whitman find?

5. What do some brain scientists propose?

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