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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 call self-healing material?
(a) Internal organs.
(b) The skin.
(c) Bones.
(d) The brain.
2. About how many pounds does a brain weigh?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.
3. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Our vision can be fooled.
(c) Our sight can be erratic.
(d) Our sight can be inaccurate.
4. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?
(a) A ball team.
(b) A city.
(c) A maze.
(d) A village.
5. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?
(a) Hepatic.
(b) Nephrons.
(c) Erythrocytes.
(d) Neurons.
Short Answer Questions
1. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?
2. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?
3. Of what is the phenomenon of depth being stimulated on a flat page an example?
4. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?
5. What were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the point of the experiment that Eagleman suggests the reader try?
2. What has to shift in order to fully appreciate the small role of the unconscious and to what does Eagleman compare that shift?
3. What is one way to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking without our even knowing it?
4. What gap does Eagleman explore in Chapter 3?
5. Why is it an advantage to be able to do things without the use of the conscious mind?
6. What does Eagleman say Sigmund Freud understood?
7. What happens to a blind person who recovers his/her sight?
8. Who is Mike May and what happens to him?
9. How is our brain wired for performing complicated tasks and why?
10. Why does Eagleman say it is not correct to change lanes by turning the wheel right and then straightening it out?
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