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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 each human brain cell contain in its entirety?
(a) A way to produce energy.
(b) A way to process information.
(c) A way to manufacture food.
(d) The human genome.

2. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) A video recorder.
(c) A kaleidoscope.
(d) A camera.

3. How does one blind rock climber use a mechanical device to help climb?
(a) The device latches onto cracks and crevices and the climber follows the rope.
(b) The device transmits impulses through the climber's tongue.
(c) There is no such device developed yet; it is in prototype stage.
(d) The device beeps in code to say where a usable crack is locate.

4. 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.

5. What do most of us notice in the world around us?
(a) Just when something is out of the ordinary.
(b) About ninety percent of what is actually there.
(c) That which impacts our safety.
(d) About ten percent of what is actually there.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?

2. What seems natural to most people?

3. What does the device that takes visual input through a camera and translate it into impulses do?

4. What are we actually unaware of?

5. At what age does Mike May regain his vision?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What ways can our vision be fooled?

3. What does Eagleman describe in the opening chapter?

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. 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. How can the brain see without eyes and what is one way this is possible?

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

9. What does Eagleman say the experiment with the photographs of women illustrates?

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

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