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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 does the author say lies underneath one's exterior looks?
(a) A world of its own.
(b) A simple network of interlocking pieces.
(c) A string of double helixes.
(d) Sophisticated machinery.

2. What does an experiment that has people associate words such as "like" or "dislike" measure?
(a) Preferences for certain cars.
(b) Preferences for certain flavors of ice cream
(c) Prejudicial feelings about people from certain countries.
(d) Prejudicial feelings about different reaces.

3. What does Eagleman say is the correct way to do this motion?
(a) Steer to the left, then straighten the wheel, then turn to the right.
(b) Use a reference point to scribe the circle.
(c) Steer to the right, then straighten the wheel, then turn to the left.
(d) Move first clockwise, then counterclockwise.

4. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?
(a) He makes sense of the world in a different way than lifelong sighted people.
(b) He learns to interpret the world around him except for objects in the distance.
(c) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.
(d) He learns to make sense of the visual world.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are our brains wired to do as far as complicated tasks are concerned?

2. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?

3. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?

4. About how many pounds does a brain weigh?

5. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Eagleman say Sigmund Freud understood?

7. How does Mike May adjust to his regained sight?

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

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

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

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