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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 Eagleman say about people who marry that is related to the idea of implicit egotism?
(a) That people who marry seem to suffer less from implicit egotism.
(b) That people who possess little ego tend not to marry.
(c) That one marries someone whose egotism reflects their own feelings about themselves.
(d) That the number of people who marry people whose first names begin with the same letter as their own is statistically significant.

2. How does the author describe parts of the brain?
(a) As discrete units that can be individually programmed.
(b) As radically different one from the other.
(c) As independent of each other.
(d) As self-configuring.

3. If someone moves slightly towards the word dislike before choosing the word like, what does that indicate?
(a) The experiment is set up poorly.
(b) A conflict between the unconscious and conscious minds.
(c) The person is undecided.
(d) The experiment is weighted unfairly.

4. How do most people perform the motion on question number 62?
(a) They go clockwise.
(b) They turn the wheel slightly to the right, then straighten it out again.
(c) They go counter-clockwise.
(d) They turn the wheel slightly to the left, then straighten it out again.

5. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?
(a) To show that scribing geometric forms without a point of reference is almost impossible.
(b) To show that the eyes visualize one thing while the brain carries it out another way.
(c) To see how many will accept directions from a book.
(d) To understand the we do many things unconsciously that are difficult to recreate with the conscious mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?

2. What does the author say lies underneath one's exterior looks?

3. What was disorienting for May?

4. How often does one cell send something to other cells?

5. How does Alberts convince one African that the native's tongue is still intact?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is seeing and what is the most important aspect of seeing?

2. What is the simple experiment Eagleman asks the reader to perform?

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

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

5. What is one example Eagleman gives of how one reacts to something before the person is even aware of the situation?

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

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

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

9. Who is Mike May and what happens to him?

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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