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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. When does Arthur Alberts travel from New York to Africa?
(a) 2004.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1997.
2. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?
(a) Our previous experiences.
(b) Our knowledge.
(c) Our intuition.
(d) Our senses.
3. What motion does Eagleman ask his readers to make?
(a) Scribing a square in the air.
(b) A circular motion.
(c) That of the steering wheel of a car when changing lanes to the left.
(d) That of the steering wheel of a car when changing lanes to the right.
4. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?
(a) They are no challenge since he remembers how to interpret them from when he used to see.
(b) The feeling of confinement with the walls so close bothers him.
(c) The way the floor and walls meet at angles is upsets his sense of balance.
(d) The apparent convergence of the walls in the distance confuses him.
5. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?
(a) It is related to the ability to draw.
(b) You either have the ability at the very beginning or you can never learn it.
(c) It eventually becomes automatic and becomes an unconscious process.
(d) It is related to the ability to reason abstractly.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does each brain cell send to other cells?
2. At what age does Mike May regain his vision?
3. How far in the past do we actually "live"?
4. When an action becomes automatic, what part of the brain is controlling it?
5. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?
Short Essay Questions
1. What ways can our vision be fooled?
2. What has given greater insight into the workings of the mind since Freud's time?
3. What is one example Eagleman gives of how one reacts to something before the person is even aware of the situation?
4. What is the point of the experiment that Eagleman suggests the reader try?
5. What does Eagleman say our intuition tells us about our experience of the world and is the intuition accurate?
6. Who is Mike May and what happens to him?
7. What is seeing and what is the most important aspect of seeing?
8. What does Eagleman say scientists continually study, and what is the result?
9. What does Eagleman say the experiment with the photographs of women illustrates?
10. What gap does Eagleman explore in Chapter 3?
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