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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 is difficult to do when it comes to sorting young chickens?
(a) Determining sex.
(b) Catching a chicken if it gets loose.
(c) Keeping the mother from pecking you.
(d) Keeping the chickens grouped.

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

3. What happens to May after some time of having his sight back?
(a) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.
(b) He learns to make sense of the visual world.
(c) He learns to interpret the world around him except for objects in the distance.
(d) He makes sense of the world in a different way than lifelong sighted people.

4. How do sorters learn to do their job?
(a) By reading a how-to book.
(b) By studying videos of how to sort.
(c) By an expert sorter correcting a novice.
(d) By watching experts sort.

5. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?
(a) To show that the eyes visualize one thing while the brain carries it out another way.
(b) To show that scribing geometric forms without a point of reference is almost impossible.
(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. At what age does Mike May regain his vision?

2. How does the author refer to the brain?

3. About how many pounds does a brain weigh?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the point of the experiment that Eagleman suggests the reader try?

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

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

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

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

8. What is one way to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking without our even knowing it?

9. What gap does Eagleman explore in Chapter 3?

10. What does Eagleman say about how vision works?

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