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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the orbitofrontal cortex?
(a) The area of the brain that determines right or left handedness.
(b) The area of the brain that often determines psychosis.
(c) The area of the brain where the spinal column meets the brain tissue.
(d) The area of the brain affected by Alex's tumor.

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

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

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

7. What does the amygdala regulate?
(a) Logical thought processes.
(b) Breathing.
(c) Emotions such as aggression and fear.
(d) Emotions such as love and joy.

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

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

10. What assumption is at the core of the American legal system?
(a) That there are some people who can choose no other than a life of crime.
(b) That some people's insanity is not their fault.
(c) That we each have free will.
(d) That some people are genetically insane.

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

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

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

14. What does Eagleman say a man named Alex started demonstrating?
(a) A significant change in his television habits.
(b) A significant change in his sexual preferences.
(c) An unusual musical talent.
(d) An unusual mathematical talent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleton point out in the beginning of the chapter about our senses?

2. From what does Eagleman say our ultimate behavior springs?

3. From what was Alex suffering at the time?

4. What was discovered about Alex's health?

5. What were men first shown briefly?

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