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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Eagleman pose about the actor?
(a) Which is the real man--the bigot or the one who seems sorry for his actions.
(b) If the actor learned his bigotry as a child.
(c) How much of the actor's life was impacted by the incident.
(d) If the actor learned his bigotry from society in general.

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

3. What did some commentators say about the incident with the actor?
(a) That the man is truly anti-Black and it was revealed when he was drunk.
(b) That the man is truly anti-Asian and it was revealed when he was drunk.
(c) That the man is truly anti-Semitic and it was revealed when he was drunk.
(d) That the man is truly anti-Hispanic and it was revealed when he was drunk.

4. What are two competing aspects of the brain which Eagleman mentions?
(a) Rational and psychological.
(b) Emotional and psychological.
(c) Rational and emotional.
(d) Rational and irrational.

5. How old was Charles Whitman when he died?
(a) 44.
(b) 21.
(c) 15.
(d) 25.

6. Why does Eagleman think people find the second puzzle easier to solve?
(a) They were told the first puzzle was easier.
(b) Most people more easily process information framed it in a social context.
(c) They were told the second puzzle was easier.
(d) They had practice with the first puzzle and it was in their unconscious.

7. What is hard wired into our brains?
(a) Only the survival instinct.
(b) Much of what motivates us and drives our behavior.
(c) Nothing is actually hard wired into our brains.
(d) Things such as breathing and digestion.

8. What does the nature of the debate about the drunken actor illustrate according to Eagleman?
(a) We are always ready to excuse celetrity behavior.
(b) We want to think of ourselves and others as being one way or another.
(c) We are always ready to judge and condemn.
(d) We want to excuse others so we can excuse ourselves.

9. 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.

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

11. 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 only exist to serve the mind.
(d) They are limited.

12. What has a role in how genetic tendencies might be expressed?
(a) A person's upbringing and environment.
(b) If the genes are from the paternal or maternal side of the child.
(c) Which genes are recessive versus dominant.
(d) Whether a trigger is there to activate a bad behavior gene.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What argument does Eagleman say he is not making?

2. What was winning the battle for control of Whitman's behavior in Eagleman's analogy?

3. How does Eagleman compare the conscious mind to the senses in a human being?

4. How do some scientist define intelligence?

5. What can insects do that human beings cannot do?

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