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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 we actually unaware of?
(a) Subtleties of change.
(b) The small nuances.
(c) What is happening in real time.
(d) What is happening.

2. 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) The instant they hear the ball leave the pitcher's hand.
(c) Before the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(d) As soon as the brain processes the sound of the ball's approach.

3. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?
(a) The language of individual, specialized cells.
(b) Our means of connecting the brain to the heart.
(c) Our own programming language.
(d) Our emotional world.

4. What does the author call self-healing material?
(a) Internal organs.
(b) The skin.
(c) Bones.
(d) The brain.

5. How does the author describe parts of the brain?
(a) As independent of each other.
(b) As discrete units that can be individually programmed.
(c) As self-configuring.
(d) As radically different one from the other.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do sorters learn to do their job?

2. What seems natural to most people?

3. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?

4. What does the novice sorter eventually do in order to become an expert sorter?

5. About how many pounds does a brain weigh?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to a blind person who recovers his/her sight?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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