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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. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?
(a) A village.
(b) A city.
(c) A maze.
(d) A ball team.

2. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?
(a) The limbic system.
(b) The circulatory system.
(c) The nervous system.
(d) The heart and brain.

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

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

5. What is something the brain has to learn?
(a) Moving electrical impulses.
(b) Seeing.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Making contacts among synapses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say is the correct way to do this motion?

2. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Eagleman say about how vision works?

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