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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 can happen even after we learn to see?
(a) Our vision can be fooled.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Our sight can be inaccurate.
(d) Our sight can be erratic.

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

3. What is meant by "implicit egotism"?
(a) The belief in psychology that the ego is not real.
(b) The tendency for the ego to determine prejudice.
(c) The tendency for most people to like themselves.
(d) The way the ego receives implied beliefs from the unconscious.

4. What are two examples of optical illusions?
(a) The apparent motion of stationary images and the apparent change in size of images when their backgrounds are changed.
(b) Red looking black.
(c) A square being a rectangle.
(d) A round circle looking elliptical.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?

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

3. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?

4. When does Arthur Alberts travel from New York to Africa?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain the example of the chicken sexers that Eagleman discusses.

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

4. What does Eagleman say about the auditory sense?

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

6. What does Eagleman describe in the opening chapter?

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

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

9. What does Eagleman say about how vision works?

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

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