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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Why Blameworthiness Is the Wrong Question.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did an autopsy of Whitman find?
(a) He was on ten different types of medicins.
(b) He had a brain tumor.
(c) He was severely abused as a child.
(d) He was drunk when he died.

2. What does Chapter 4 explore?
(a) How the conscious and unconscious minds can be complementary.
(b) The limits to our unconscious thinking.
(c) The ways our conscious thinking get us in trouble.
(d) The limits to our conscious thinking.

3. What argument does Eagleman say he is not making?
(a) That we should be working more towards gene manipulation.
(b) That those who have a genetic defect that affects their behavior should be more closely monitored.
(c) That every one must be absolutely accountable.
(d) That no one is responsible for his/her choices.

4. What does the logic puzzle that Eagleman challenges readers with involve?
(a) Light and dark shapes.
(b) Colors and numbers.
(c) Shapes and numbers.
(d) Colors and shapes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Whitman indicate in some writings he left behind?

2. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?

3. Of what is the phenomenon of depth being stimulated on a flat page an example?

4. How does Eagleman then change the puzzle?

5. What has a role in how genetic tendencies might be expressed?

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