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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. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?
(a) Prejudice can be hidden in the unconscious.
(b) It shows how sight is both an unconscious and conscious action.
(c) The conscious mind might be prejudice but most will not acknowledge their feelings.
(d) It demonstrates how sight affects conscious choices.

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

3. What were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?
(a) The ease at remembering names.
(b) How attractive they found women's faces in photographs they are shown.
(c) How easy it is to solve a given problem.
(d) The ease at drawing a simple picture they are shown.

4. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?
(a) Illustrations of optical illusions.
(b) Illustrations of how the eye can move too fast to be accurate.
(c) Illustrations of pictures within pictures.
(d) Illustrations of the eye structure.

5. What would happen if the people actually performed this motion in reality?
(a) The square would be a rectangle.
(b) The car would flip over.
(c) The circle would most likely turn out to be more elliptical.
(d) The car would go off the road.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alberts record?

2. How do sorters learn to do their job?

3. What does an experiment that has people associate words such as "like" or "dislike" measure?

4. What does the author call self-healing material?

5. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Eagleman say about how vision works?

5. What does Eagleman describe in the opening chapter?

6. What does Eagleman say Sigmund Freud understood?

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

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

9. How is one's conscious mind limited and how does this make the mind more difficult to understand?

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

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