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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 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.

2. What assumption does Eagleman dismiss?
(a) That the brain's health affects intelligence.
(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 people have control over their behavior not matter what.

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

4. To what do human beings seem to be predisposed without prior learning?
(a) To be attracted to voices.
(b) To want to understand what motivates our desires.
(c) To be attracted to faces.
(d) To understand what motivates our desires.

5. What does the amygdala regulate?
(a) Emotions such as love and joy.
(b) Breathing.
(c) Logical thought processes.
(d) Emotions such as aggression and fear.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was one routine in charge of?

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

4. What example does Eagleman offer to illustrate how sub-routines of our mind work?

5. What does Chapter 4 explore?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Chapter 4 explore?

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

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

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

6. What does Eagleman have readers consider about Whitman?

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

8. What does Eagleman say about our ability to perceive light versus that of insects?

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

10. How does Eagleman interpret the incident?

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