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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 something the brain has to learn?
(a) Moving electrical impulses.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Making contacts among synapses.
(d) Seeing.

2. What are those people called who sort out baby chickens by their gender?
(a) They do not have a name.
(b) Chicken sexers.
(c) Chickeners.
(d) Sorters.

3. How far in the past do we actually "live"?
(a) We actually live slightly into the future.
(b) A second or two.
(c) Sometimes up to a minute.
(d) A few milliseconds.

4. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?
(a) Someone who has cataracts removed.
(b) Blind people who recover their sight.
(c) Everyone who is sighted can immediately discern depth and movement.
(d) Someone who closes the eyes for more than a few seconds and then opens them.

5. How is what a person likes determined?
(a) Largely by unconscious thinking.
(b) By careful consideration of the conscious mind with input from the unconscious mind.
(c) There is no way to know that.
(d) Largely by conscious thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age does Mike May regain his vision?

2. What happens when one's brain changes?

3. What are two examples of optical illusions?

4. What does the device that takes visual input through a camera and translate it into impulses do?

5. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eagleman offer an analogy of one's awareness to a newspaper headline?

2. What does Eagleman say about the auditory sense?

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

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

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

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 ways can our vision be fooled?

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

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

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