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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. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?
(a) To tape his observations.
(b) To tape his last moments if he is dying.
(c) Because of his love of gadgetry.
(d) Because of his love of music.

2. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?
(a) The full story.
(b) The way the images are bounced through the mind like light in a camera.
(c) The way the images fit together.
(d) The way the images are recorded as fact but much more exists that the video camera does not capture.

3. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?
(a) It shows how sight is both an unconscious and conscious action.
(b) Prejudice can be hidden in the unconscious.
(c) The conscious mind might be prejudice but most will not acknowledge their feelings.
(d) It demonstrates how sight affects conscious choices.

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

5. What does the novice sorter eventually do in order to become an expert sorter?
(a) Intuit the difference with their minds.
(b) Close their eyes and hear the difference.
(c) Feel the difference in feather softness.
(d) Internalize the task.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say seeing is?

2. What happens when one's brain changes?

3. What does the author call self-healing material?

4. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?

5. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is it an advantage to be able to do things without the use of the conscious mind?

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

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

5. What is another illustration of how one reacts to something before the person is even aware of the situation?

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

7. What does Eagleman say about how vision works?

8. What does Eagleman say about the auditory sense?

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

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

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