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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eagleman say we are at the mercy of?
(a) Our own upbringing.
(b) The unconscious workings of our minds.
(c) Medical advancements.
(d) Fate.

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

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

4. How did Whitman die?
(a) Falls out of a tower.
(b) Lightening.
(c) Shot by the police.
(d) Electrical shock.

5. What does Eagleman say we cannot think?
(a) Some thoughts.
(b) There is nothing we cannot think.
(c) Abstract ideas in a third dimension.
(d) Something that is contrary to the implicit ego.

6. What does Eagleton think many sub-routines of our mind are doing?
(a) Competing with each other.
(b) Complementing each other.
(c) Leading and following each other.
(d) Clashing with each other.

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

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

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

10. What studies does Eagleman look at in this chapter?
(a) Studies about how one distinguishes one smell from another.
(b) Studies about how the brain processes input.
(c) Studies that look at what people seem to find attractive in others.
(d) Studies about how one distinguishes one taste from another.

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

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

13. What were men then shown for a longer period of time?
(a) Pictures of abstract figures that resembled the female figure.
(b) The same pictures of the women.
(c) Colors splashed randomly on the paper.
(d) Pictures of cars with women beside them.

14. What can insects do that human beings cannot do?
(a) They can see the entire spectrum of light.
(b) Insects can see wavelengths we cannot see.
(c) They can hear light as well as see it.
(d) They can see both sound and light.

15. What did others say about the incident?
(a) They believed the actor was under duress and did not mean it.
(b) They believed the police officer misrepresented the incident.
(c) They said there is no way to know whether the actor believes one way or the other.
(d) They dismissed it as the rantings of a drunken man, which is a common thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had people noticed about Whitman in some months before his death?

2. What question does Eagleman pose about the actor?

3. What does Eagleman say about the question as to whether the actor is racist or not?

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

5. What does the nature of the debate about the drunken actor illustrate according to Eagleman?

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