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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 Eagleman say a man named Alex started demonstrating?
(a) A significant change in his television habits.
(b) An unusual mathematical talent.
(c) A significant change in his sexual preferences.
(d) An unusual musical talent.

2. How much of the wavelengths of light do our eyes see?
(a) Mostly the bands at either end.
(b) Most of it.
(c) Mostly the middle 1/3.
(d) Only a small portion.

3. What does Eagleman say we cannot choose?
(a) If we want to commit a murder or not.
(b) If we want to eat that piece of pie or not.
(c) If our environment has chemical hazards that could trigger bad behavior.
(d) Our genes or who raises us.

4. What does Eagleton think many sub-routines of our mind are doing?
(a) Clashing with each other.
(b) Complementing each other.
(c) Competing with each other.
(d) Leading and following each other.

5. At what do babies tend to look?
(a) Their own hands.
(b) Hands.
(c) The heart are where the sound of the heart beat is.
(d) Faces.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What can insects do that human beings cannot do?

3. How does Eagleman answer the question about whether the actor is racist or not?

4. What is the significant fact in the two showings to the men?

5. How does Eagleton support his statement about what is or is not hard wired into our brains?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Eagleman have readers consider about Whitman?

3. What does Eagleman say about free will?

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

5. What does Eagleman suggest about our culpability in our actions, particularly males?

6. What happens when the frontal cortex is damaged?

7. What does Eagleman write about Kenneth Parks?

8. What does Eagleman say is hard wired into our brains?

9. How does Eagleman interpret the incident?

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

(see the answer keys)

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