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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are those people called who sort out baby chickens by their gender?
(a) Sorters.
(b) They do not have a name.
(c) Chickeners.
(d) Chicken sexers.

2. How do sorters learn to do their job?
(a) By reading a how-to book.
(b) By an expert sorter correcting a novice.
(c) By studying videos of how to sort.
(d) By watching experts sort.

3. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?
(a) Why we moved the arm.
(b) If our brain or eyes initiated the move.
(c) The flurry of neural impulses that caused the arm to move.
(d) If the arm moved before or after we thought about moving it.

4. What does Alberts record?
(a) The sounds of the insect world of Africa.
(b) The sounds of many bird species.
(c) The sounds of the lions.
(d) African music.

5. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?
(a) As soon as the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(b) As soon as the brain processes the sound of the ball's approach.
(c) Before the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(d) The instant they hear the ball leave the pitcher's hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author refer to the brain?

2. About how many pounds does a brain weigh?

3. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?

4. What is another type of brain cell?

5. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eagleman say scientists continually study, and what is the result?

2. How can the brain see without eyes and what is one way this is possible?

3. What is one way to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking without our even knowing it?

4. What does Eagleman say about how vision works?

5. What is one example Eagleman gives of how one reacts to something before the person is even aware of the situation?

6. What has to shift in order to fully appreciate the small role of the unconscious and to what does Eagleman compare that shift?

7. What is the simple experiment Eagleman asks the reader to perform?

8. Explain the example of the chicken sexers that Eagleman discusses.

9. What is another illustration of how one reacts to something before the person is even aware of the situation?

10. Summarize the experiment Eagleman writes about concerning photographs of women and how men responded.

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