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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 seems natural to most people?
(a) Processing physical data.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Believing what we see is real.
(d) Seeing.

2. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?
(a) The instant they hear the ball leave the pitcher's hand.
(b) As soon as the brain has time to visually process the ball.
(c) As soon as the brain processes the sound of the ball's approach.
(d) Before the brain has time to visually process the ball.

3. To what are innumerable facets of ourselves linked?
(a) The nervous system.
(b) The limbic system.
(c) The circulatory system.
(d) The heart and brain.

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

5. What is another type of brain cell?
(a) Neutrophils.
(b) Nephrons.
(c) Glia.
(d) Leukocytes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many connections does a typical neuron make to neighboring neurons?

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

3. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?

4. What is meant by "implicit egotism"?

5. What does Eagleman say is the correct way to do this motion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Eagleman say about the auditory sense?

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

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

8. What does Eagleman describe in the opening chapter?

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

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

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