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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Charles Whitman?
(a) A cook at University of Texas.
(b) A mass murderer.
(c) A Professor at University of San Francisco.
(d) A small-time criminal.

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

6. How does Eagleman then change the puzzle?
(a) He makes it about breeds of cats.
(b) He makes it about breeds of dogs.
(c) He makes it about people and their occupations.
(d) He makes it about people and their ages.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What was one routine in charge of?
(a) Recording moisture readings.
(b) Writing down each degree of latitude.
(c) Finding the block.
(d) Spotting the numbers.

14. What does Chapter 4 explore?
(a) The ways our conscious thinking get us in trouble.
(b) The limits to our unconscious thinking.
(c) The limits to our conscious thinking.
(d) How the conscious and unconscious minds can be complementary.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What creature does Eagleman use as an example of one with an excellent sense of smell?

3. What were men first shown briefly?

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

5. At what do babies tend to look?

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