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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 tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?
(a) Our previous experiences.
(b) Our senses.
(c) Our intuition.
(d) Our knowledge.

2. What was disorienting for May?
(a) The way steps seemed unattached to the earth.
(b) The way shapes affected the appearance of colors.
(c) The sudden shift of objects in his visual field when he turned his head.
(d) The way colors affected the appearance of shapes.

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

4. What does Eagleman say seeing is?
(a) A complex series of lower and higher mental processes.
(b) An overrated skill.
(c) A skill that will someday be obsolete.
(d) An ability that is easy to mimic with computers.

5. How does May first react to his new sight?
(a) He is elated and awed.
(b) Since he had seen when he was younger, it was no big deal.
(c) He is unable to make sense of what he sees.
(d) He blinds himself again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are those people called who sort out baby chickens by their gender?

2. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?

3. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?

4. By what are thoughts underpinned?

5. How do most people perform the motion on question number 62?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Eagleman say Sigmund Freud understood?

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

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

8. What does Eagleman describe in the opening chapter?

9. What does Eagleman say about the auditory sense?

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

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