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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 was one routine in charge of?
(a) Recording moisture readings.
(b) Finding the block.
(c) Writing down each degree of latitude.
(d) Spotting the numbers.

2. What does Eagleman think some people would have said about Whitman had he lived?
(a) He was responsible for his actions because he should have sought medical help.
(b) He was totally responsible for his actions no matter what.
(c) He was not wholly responsible nor wholly blameless for his actions.
(d) He was not responsible for his actions.

3. What were men then shown for a longer period of time?
(a) Colors splashed randomly on the paper.
(b) Pictures of cars with women beside them.
(c) Pictures of abstract figures that resembled the female figure.
(d) The same pictures of the women.

4. How does Eagleton support his statement about what is or is not hard wired into our brains?
(a) He provides several examples.
(b) He says he cannot support it since it is only theoretical.
(c) He says the reader must take his word on it.
(d) He has the reader do an experiement on their own mind.

5. What was winning the battle for control of Whitman's behavior in Eagleman's analogy?
(a) Love versus hate.
(b) Religion versus science.
(c) Whitman's aggressive zombie programs.
(d) Logic versus emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What assumption does Eagleman dismiss?

2. What was discovered about Alex's health?

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

4. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?

5. What does Eagleman say about the question as to whether the actor is racist or not?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Eagleman have readers consider about Whitman?

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

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

7. What does Eagleman say about free will?

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

9. What does Chapter 4 explore?

10. What does Eagleman write about Kenneth Parks?

(see the answer keys)

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