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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. How does May first react to his new sight?
(a) He is unable to make sense of what he sees.
(b) Since he had seen when he was younger, it was no big deal.
(c) He blinds himself again.
(d) He is elated and awed.

2. What are our brains wired to do as far as complicated tasks are concerned?
(a) Let the unconscious mind perform the task.
(b) Study the task carefully and then consciously decide which part of the brain would be best to perform the task.
(c) To consciously send the task to the unconscious mind to learn and then teach the conscious mind.
(d) To take the task apart and consciously learn it in steps.

3. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?
(a) The way the images are recorded as fact but much more exists that the video camera does not capture.
(b) The way the images fit together.
(c) The way the images are bounced through the mind like light in a camera.
(d) The full story.

4. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?
(a) Ericksson.
(b) Freud.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Jung.

5. What is the consistency of the brain?
(a) Jello.
(b) Milk.
(c) Bread.
(d) Peanut butter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was disorienting for May?

2. What seems natural to most people?

3. How is what a person likes determined?

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

5. What is something the brain has to learn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eagleman say about how vision works?

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

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

4. How is our brain wired for performing complicated tasks and why?

5. What does Eagleman say about the auditory sense?

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

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

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

9. What happens to a blind person who recovers his/her sight?

10. What does Eagleman describe in the opening chapter?

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