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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 does Chapter 4 explore?
(a) The limits to our conscious thinking.
(b) The limits to our unconscious thinking.
(c) The ways our conscious thinking get us in trouble.
(d) How the conscious and unconscious minds can be complementary.

2. What example does Eagleman offer to illustrate how sub-routines of our mind work?
(a) A person both wanting and not wanting a piece of cake.
(b) A person both wanting and not wanting a new job.
(c) A person both wanting and not wanting to move.
(d) A person both wanting and not wanting to exercise.

3. Why does Eagleman think people find the second puzzle easier to solve?
(a) Most people more easily process information framed it in a social context.
(b) They were told the second puzzle was easier.
(c) They were told the first puzzle was easier.
(d) They had practice with the first puzzle and it was in their unconscious.

4. What did others say about the incident?
(a) They believed the police officer misrepresented the incident.
(b) They believed the actor was under duress and did not mean it.
(c) They dismissed it as the rantings of a drunken man, which is a common thing.
(d) They said there is no way to know whether the actor believes one way or the other.

5. What proved difficult in programming robots?
(a) Having them be able to grasp fine particles.
(b) Having them perform two tasks that were only minutely different.
(c) Having them perform simple tasks.
(d) Having them understand the difference between two degrees of moisture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What assumption does Eagleman dismiss?

2. What was one routine in charge of?

3. What do some brain scientists propose?

4. What is hard wired into our brains?

5. What is exceptional about the creature mentioned in question 89?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the frontal cortex is damaged?

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

3. What example does Eagleman cite to demonstrate the difference between the rational and emotional mind?

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

5. What does Eagleman say about free will?

6. Does Eagleman think genetics or upbringing has more to bear on one's actions and does he think it is an important question?

7. To what part of the body are newborns drawn and what does this imply about human beings' predisposition?

8. What does Eagleman write about Kenneth Parks?

9. What does Eagleman have readers consider about Whitman?

10. What does Eagleman say about a man named Alex?

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