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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 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 people have control over their behavior not matter what.
(d) That the brain is able to heal itself of most problems.

2. What is exceptional about the creature mentioned in question 89?
(a) They can smell odors after weeks have passed.
(b) They can smell the fleas on them.
(c) They can smell an odor on the air even after several days.
(d) They can sense a whole range of odors that human beings cannot sense.

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

4. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?
(a) 1/15.
(b) 1/10.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 1/20.

5. From what does Eagleman say our ultimate behavior springs?
(a) As a result of values taught to us at a young age.
(b) As a result of our individual intelligence.
(c) As a result of the biological balance within our brain.
(d) As a result of the physical and emotional working in conjunction with each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?

2. What assumption is at the core of the American legal system?

3. At what do babies tend to look?

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

5. At what age does Mike May regain his vision?

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