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

2. What is the most important part of seeing?
(a) How seeing enables social interaction.
(b) How one uses the information gained by sight.
(c) How seeing stimulates the brain to be more productive.
(d) What the unconscious brain does with the information.

3. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?
(a) They are no challenge since he remembers how to interpret them from when he used to see.
(b) The way the floor and walls meet at angles is upsets his sense of balance.
(c) The apparent convergence of the walls in the distance confuses him.
(d) The feeling of confinement with the walls so close bothers him.

4. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?
(a) Trillions of trillions.
(b) Hundreds of thousands.
(c) Hundreds of trillions.
(d) Hundreds of billions.

5. What do dilated eyes have to do with the experiment the author mentions?
(a) Dilated eyes have nothing to do with the experiment.
(b) It is a way to tell if the participant is looking directly at the computer screen.
(c) The men were more attracted to women with dilated eyes.
(d) It is a measure of the light used.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?

2. What do most of us notice in the world around us?

3. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?

4. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What gap does Eagleman explore in Chapter 3?

3. What does Eagleman say about how vision works?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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