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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The Kinds of Thoughts That Are Thinkable.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eagleman say is difficult?
(a) Knowing that we have very little true free will.
(b) Believing that our unconscious is so aware.
(c) Understanding and accepting that much of our minds is inaccessible to our conscious selves.
(d) Believing that our unconscious is so unaware.

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

3. What is difficult to do when it comes to sorting young chickens?
(a) Keeping the chickens grouped.
(b) Determining sex.
(c) Catching a chicken if it gets loose.
(d) Keeping the mother from pecking you.

4. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?
(a) Our own programming language.
(b) The language of individual, specialized cells.
(c) Our means of connecting the brain to the heart.
(d) Our emotional world.

5. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?
(a) A kaleidoscope.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) A video recorder.
(d) A camera.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do photographs of different races reveal something about the mind?

2. Of what are we unconscious when we move an arm?

3. What are our brains wired to do as far as complicated tasks are concerned?

4. What is something the brain has to learn?

5. What illustrations does Eagleman present to show the concept from question 44?

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