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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 The Testimony of the Senses: What Is Experience Really Like?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the eyes of blind people who recover their sight work compared to persons who are sighted since birth?
(a) The formerly blind person's eyes often only work in strong light.
(b) The eyes both work the same in both groups.
(c) The formerly blind person's eyes often do not work in tandem.
(d) The person who is sighted from birth can see better in low light.

2. What do most of us notice in the world around us?
(a) About ninety percent of what is actually there.
(b) About ten percent of what is actually there.
(c) That which impacts our safety.
(d) Just when something is out of the ordinary.

3. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

4. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?
(a) Jung.
(b) Ericksson.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Freud.

5. What are we actually unaware of?
(a) What is happening.
(b) The small nuances.
(c) Subtleties of change.
(d) What is happening in real time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is something the brain has to learn?

2. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?

3. To what does Eagleman compare consciousness?

4. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?

5. What were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?

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