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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. At what age does Mike May regain his vision?
(a) 46.
(b) 32.
(c) 55.
(d) 23.

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

3. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?
(a) People who move to a different culture.
(b) People who have had an eye injured and do not see out of it for a while.
(c) Blind people who recover their sight.
(d) People who start wearing glasses.

4. What seems natural to most people?
(a) Seeing.
(b) Processing physical data.
(c) Believing what we see is real.
(d) Thinking.

5. What is difficult to do when it comes to sorting young chickens?
(a) Keeping the mother from pecking you.
(b) Catching a chicken if it gets loose.
(c) Keeping the chickens grouped.
(d) Determining sex.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?

3. What would happen if the people actually performed this motion in reality?

4. What motion does Eagleman ask his readers to make?

5. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?

Short Essay Questions

1. What gap does Eagleman explore in Chapter 3?

2. Why does Eagleman say it is not correct to change lanes by turning the wheel right and then straightening it out?

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

4. What does Eagleman say about how vision works?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Eagleman offer an analogy of one's awareness to a newspaper headline?

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