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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was winning the battle for control of Whitman's behavior in Eagleman's analogy?
(a) Whitman's aggressive zombie programs.
(b) Religion versus science.
(c) Logic versus emotions.
(d) Love versus hate.

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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 our environment has chemical hazards that could trigger bad behavior.
(d) If we want to commit a murder or not.

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

10. What did the actor do after the incident?
(a) Paid off the group that got the record removed.
(b) Wrote an apology and offered to repair the harm.
(c) Defended his position.
(d) Denied it was about him.

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

12. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?
(a) Neither are infallible.
(b) There are thoughts that we cannot think, just as there are wavelengths of light we cannot see.
(c) Both involve the same area of the left brain.
(d) Both involve the right brain.

13. What is the significant fact in the two showings to the men?
(a) The men invariably chose differently in each situation.
(b) The men seemed to randomly choose preferences no matter the amount of time exposed to the images.
(c) The men invariably chose the same in either situation.
(d) It has little to do with appearance, but more to do with the time they had to look at the pictures.

14. What did an autopsy of Whitman find?
(a) He had a brain tumor.
(b) He was on ten different types of medicins.
(c) He was severely abused as a child.
(d) He was drunk when he died.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the logic puzzle that Eagleman challenges readers with involve?

2. Who obtained a record of the arresting incident?

3. What does Eagleman say the majority of criminals are?

4. What was one routine in charge of?

5. What does Eagleman think some people would have said about Whitman had he lived?

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