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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 is difficult?
(a) Understanding and accepting that much of our minds is inaccessible to our conscious selves.
(b) Believing that our unconscious is so aware.
(c) Believing that our unconscious is so unaware.
(d) Knowing that we have very little true free will.

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

3. What has a role in how genetic tendencies might be expressed?
(a) Whether a trigger is there to activate a bad behavior gene.
(b) Which genes are recessive versus dominant.
(c) A person's upbringing and environment.
(d) If the genes are from the paternal or maternal side of the child.

4. What did the group do with the arresting record?
(a) Confronted the actor in person on live television.
(b) Bribed an officer to destroy the record.
(c) Tried to get rid of the record.
(d) Made it public.

5. From what does Eagleman say our ultimate behavior springs?
(a) As a result of our individual intelligence.
(b) As a result of the biological balance within our brain.
(c) As a result of values taught to us at a young age.
(d) As a result of the physical and emotional working in conjunction with each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Eagleman pose about the actor?

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

3. What did the actor do after the incident?

4. At what do babies tend to look?

5. How does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chapter 4 explore?

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

3. What does Eagleman have readers consider about Whitman?

4. How does Eagleman interpret the incident?

5. What does Eagleman say about free will?

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

7. What happens when the frontal cortex is damaged?

8. How does a rat react to conflicting choices?

9. How does Eagleman compare the conscious mind to our senses?

10. What does Eagleman write about Kenneth Parks?

(see the answer keys)

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