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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 is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?
(a) To see how many will accept directions from a book.
(b) To understand the we do many things unconsciously that are difficult to recreate with the conscious mind.
(c) To show that the eyes visualize one thing while the brain carries it out another way.
(d) To show that scribing geometric forms without a point of reference is almost impossible.

2. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?
(a) A ball team.
(b) A city.
(c) A maze.
(d) A village.

3. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?
(a) The feeling of confinement with the walls so close bothers him.
(b) They are no challenge since he remembers how to interpret them from when he used to see.
(c) The way the floor and walls meet at angles is upsets his sense of balance.
(d) The apparent convergence of the walls in the distance confuses him.

4. Who obtained a record of the arresting incident?
(a) A celebrity gossip website.
(b) The Hispanic-American Cultural League.
(c) The Anti-defamation League.
(d) The Chinese-American Relations Association.

5. What do some brain scientists propose?
(a) That the brain may work on numerous smaller routines.
(b) That the brain is able to handle much larger routines than computers.
(c) That the brain is not as much like a computer as originally thought.
(d) That computers can mimic the brain in all ways except fine discrimination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?

2. How does the author describe parts of the brain?

3. What problem does Eagleman describe in illustrating how the mind may be divided?

4. What did others say about the incident?

5. What did the actor do after the incident?

(see the answer key)

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