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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alberts record?

2. What does the author say lies underneath one's exterior looks?

3. What happens when one's brain changes?

4. When does the conscious mind actively train the unconscious mind?

5. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the point of the experiment that Eagleman suggests the reader try?

2. What has to shift in order to fully appreciate the small role of the unconscious and to what does Eagleman compare that shift?

3. How is our brain wired for performing complicated tasks and why?

4. Who is Mike May and what happens to him?

5. How can the brain see without eyes and what is one way this is possible?

6. What ways can our vision be fooled?

7. What is one way to measure how our unconscious minds affect our conscious thinking without our even knowing it?

8. What does Eagleman say scientists continually study, and what is the result?

9. How does Mike May adjust to his regained sight?

10. What does Eagleman say about how vision works?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Wilson has cited a number of people in this book. Discuss he following:

1. Choose three people whom Eagleman mentions positively and give a brief idea of his opinions about those three people (or stereotypes). Use examples from Incognito to support your answer.

2. Choose three people whom Eagleman mentions negatively and give a brief idea of his opinions about those three people (or stereotypes). Use examples from Incognito to support your answer.

3. Judging what Eagleman says about different people in his text, how would you characterize him as a friend? As a colleague? Use examples from Incognito to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Titles often play a vital role in making a person decide to read a particular book. Discuss the following:

1. Fully explain why you think Incognito is titled as such. Do you think it is the best title for the book? Why or why not? Can you think of a better title? Why would you choose it?

2. How important is a title in influencing you to consider reading a book? Explain your answer.

3. Do you think a title needs to have direct relevance to a book's content? Explain your answer.

4. Have you ever read a book that when you finished, you do not understand the relevance of the title? Does it discourage you from "trusting" that particular author again?

Essay Topic 3

There are a number of interesting questions raised by Incognito. Questions that Eagleman most likely want readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:

1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?

2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Eagleman's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Wilson's probable agenda concerning that idea.

2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

4. Research the life of Eagleman and see if/where his life may have influenced his writing.

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