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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. Who is Charles Whitman?
(a) A mass murderer.
(b) A small-time criminal.
(c) A Professor at University of San Francisco.
(d) A cook at University of Texas.

2. What disease does Eagleman mention in support of his argument about free will?
(a) OCD.
(b) Autism.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Tourette's Syndrome.

3. What studies does Eagleman look at in this chapter?
(a) Studies about how one distinguishes one taste from another.
(b) Studies about how the brain processes input.
(c) Studies that look at what people seem to find attractive in others.
(d) Studies about how one distinguishes one smell from another.

4. What does Eagleman say we cannot think?
(a) Something that is contrary to the implicit ego.
(b) Some thoughts.
(c) There is nothing we cannot think.
(d) Abstract ideas in a third dimension.

5. How did Whitman die?
(a) Electrical shock.
(b) Shot by the police.
(c) Falls out of a tower.
(d) Lightening.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were men first shown briefly?

2. Who obtained a record of the arresting incident?

3. What do we perceive about the limits of our conscious knowledge?

4. What did the actor do after the incident?

5. What is hard wired into our brains?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a team of rivals have to do with the brain?

2. What does Eagleman say about the abilities of a bloodhound?

3. Who is Charles Whitman and what did he do and what may have contributed to his actions?

4. Explain the study that was performed on how men rate a woman's attractiveness.

5. What comparison of thought to wavelengths does Eagleman make?

6. How does Eagleman use an example of early robotics to illustrate how the mind may be divided?

7. What does Eagleman write about Kenneth Parks?

8. What happens when the frontal cortex is damaged?

9. How does a rat react to conflicting choices?

10. What does Eagleman have readers consider about Whitman?

(see the answer keys)

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