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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 question does Eagleman pose about the actor?
(a) Which is the real man--the bigot or the one who seems sorry for his actions.
(b) If the actor learned his bigotry as a child.
(c) How much of the actor's life was impacted by the incident.
(d) If the actor learned his bigotry from society in general.

2. What was discovered about Alex's health?
(a) He was low on several minerals.
(b) He was schizophrenic.
(c) He had a brain tumor.
(d) He had a self-immune disorder.

3. What happens when a rat is presented with a similar dilemma as the one in question 129?
(a) It gnaws on its leg.
(b) It often lies down and dies.
(c) It is incapable of any action.
(d) It often runs around in a circle.

4. What do newborns seem to recognize?
(a) The smell of their mothers.
(b) The sound of their mothers' voices.
(c) The feel of their mothers' skin.
(d) Their existence as separate from others around them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?

2. What is hard wired into our brains?

3. What does Eagleman think some people would have said about Whitman had he lived?

4. What had people noticed about Whitman in some months before his death?

5. What studies does Eagleman look at in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Eagleman write about Kenneth Parks?

6. What incident does Eagleman discuss concerning Mel Gibson?

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

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

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

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

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