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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. Where does the incident take place that Eagleman describe from 1966?
(a) Austin.
(b) Orlando.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Dallas.

2. What assumption does Eagleman dismiss?
(a) That people have control over their behavior not matter what.
(b) That all people are equally equipped to make sound and rational decisions.
(c) That the brain is able to heal itself of most problems.
(d) That the brain's health affects intelligence.

3. What had people noticed about Whitman in some months before his death?
(a) He seemed the same as always.
(b) He seemed to feel much despair.
(c) His behavior had changed.
(d) He seemed full of hope.

4. How do some scientist define intelligence?
(a) The ability to mix emotion with thought.
(b) The ability to think more than a couple steps ahead of a task.
(c) The ability to make very fine distinctions.
(d) Many small actions that can be performed without conscious thinking coming together.

5. How old was Charles Whitman when he died?
(a) 44.
(b) 15.
(c) 21.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleman say a man named Alex started demonstrating?

2. What proved difficult in programming robots?

3. What culture does this actor slander?

4. What is hard wired into our brains?

5. What does Eagleton think many sub-routines of our mind are doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Eagleman see many of the small sub-routines of the mind and what example does he give?

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

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

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

6. What does Chapter 4 explore?

7. What does Eagleman have readers consider about Whitman?

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

9. Explain the physical division in the brain and what can happen if the two hemispheres are severed.

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

(see the answer keys)

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