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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 do most of us notice in the world around us?
(a) Just when something is out of the ordinary.
(b) About ten percent of what is actually there.
(c) About ninety percent of what is actually there.
(d) That which impacts our safety.

2. What was disorienting for May?
(a) The way steps seemed unattached to the earth.
(b) The way colors affected the appearance of shapes.
(c) The sudden shift of objects in his visual field when he turned his head.
(d) The way shapes affected the appearance of colors.

3. How does May first react to his new sight?
(a) He is elated and awed.
(b) He is unable to make sense of what he sees.
(c) He blinds himself again.
(d) Since he had seen when he was younger, it was no big deal.

4. By what are thoughts underpinned?
(a) Sound.
(b) Physical stuff.
(c) Fluids.
(d) Electrical waves.

5. What does Eagleman say about the ways to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking?
(a) It is a hit and miss sort of thing.
(b) Eagleman says he will not go into that idea.
(c) It is impossible to measure such a thing.
(d) There are ways of measuring without even knowing one is doing so.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?

2. When an action becomes automatic, what part of the brain is controlling it?

3. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?

4. What is meant by "implicit egotism"?

5. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Mike May adjust to his regained sight?

3. What does Eagleman say Sigmund Freud understood?

4. What does Eagleman say about how vision works?

5. Why is it an advantage to be able to do things without the use of the conscious mind?

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

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

8. What does Eagleman say the experiment with the photographs of women illustrates?

9. What does Eagleman say our intuition tells us about our experience of the world and is the intuition accurate?

10. What is the point of the experiment that Eagleman suggests the reader try?

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