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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. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?
(a) Jung.
(b) Freud.
(c) Ericksson.
(d) Johnson.

2. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?
(a) Nephrons.
(b) Hepatic.
(c) Neurons.
(d) Erythrocytes.

3. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) A camera.
(c) A video recorder.
(d) A kaleidoscope.

4. How does the author refer to the brain?
(a) As the mission control center.
(b) As the guts of the individual life.
(c) As five pounds of power.
(d) As the organ that works in tandem with the heart.

5. What indicates a state of sexual arousal in women?
(a) Dilated eyes.
(b) Lack of focus.
(c) Closed eyes.
(d) It varies individual to individual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is difficult to do when it comes to sorting young chickens?

2. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?

3. What does Eagleman say about people who marry that is related to the idea of implicit egotism?

4. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?

5. How does Alberts convince one African that the native's tongue is still intact?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Mike May and what happens to him?

3. What does Eagleman describe in the opening chapter?

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

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

6. What gap does Eagleman explore in Chapter 3?

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

8. What has given greater insight into the workings of the mind since Freud's time?

9. How is our brain wired for performing complicated tasks and why?

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

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