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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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 understand the difference between two degrees of moisture.
(d) Having them be able to grasp fine particles.

4. How does Eagleton support his statement about what is or is not hard wired into our brains?
(a) He has the reader do an experiement on their own mind.
(b) He says he cannot support it since it is only theoretical.
(c) He provides several examples.
(d) He says the reader must take his word on it.

5. What argument does Eagleman say he is not making?
(a) That no one is responsible for his/her choices.
(b) That every one must be absolutely accountable.
(c) That we should be working more towards gene manipulation.
(d) That those who have a genetic defect that affects their behavior should be more closely monitored.

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

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

8. How does Eagleman compare the conscious mind to the senses in a human being?
(a) Senses have limits but the conscious mind does not.
(b) Neither have limits.
(c) Both have limits.
(d) Senses do not have limits but the conscious mind does.

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

10. What disease does Eagleman mention in support of his argument about free will?
(a) OCD.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Tourette's Syndrome.
(d) Autism.

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

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

13. 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) Whether a trigger is there to activate a bad behavior gene.
(d) Which genes are recessive versus dominant.

14. At what do babies tend to look?
(a) Faces.
(b) Their own hands.
(c) Hands.
(d) The heart are where the sound of the heart beat is.

15. From what does Eagleman say our ultimate behavior springs?
(a) As a result of the biological balance within our brain.
(b) As a result of our individual intelligence.
(c) As a result of the physical and emotional working in conjunction with each other.
(d) As a result of values taught to us at a young age.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What studies does Eagleman look at in this chapter?

3. What is hard wired into our brains?

4. How did Whitman die?

5. How much of the wavelengths of light do our eyes see?

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