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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 does the device that takes visual input through a camera and translate it into impulses do?
(a) It demonstrates the mechanics of sight.
(b) It enables the brain to see without eyes.
(c) There is no such machine.
(d) It is a means of giving a computer "sight."

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

3. What is the most important part of seeing?
(a) How seeing stimulates the brain to be more productive.
(b) What the unconscious brain does with the information.
(c) How seeing enables social interaction.
(d) How one uses the information gained by sight.

4. What does Eagleman say the majority of criminals are?
(a) Helpless victims of their brain chemistry.
(b) Female.
(c) Male.
(d) Unbalanced in their psychological state.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How far in the past do we actually "live"?

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

3. What creature does Eagleman use as an example of one with an excellent sense of smell?

4. What is exceptional about the creature mentioned in question 89?

5. What were men then shown for a longer period of time?

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