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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 happens to May after some time of having his sight back?
(a) He makes sense of the world in a different way than lifelong sighted people.
(b) He learns to make sense of the visual world.
(c) He never really adjusts and went to wearing a mask over his eyes.
(d) He learns to interpret the world around him except for objects in the distance.

2. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?
(a) A way to manufacture food.
(b) The human genome.
(c) A way to produce energy.
(d) A way to process information.

3. What does Eagleman say a man named Alex started demonstrating?
(a) A significant change in his sexual preferences.
(b) A significant change in his television habits.
(c) An unusual mathematical talent.
(d) An unusual musical talent.

4. Who cannot immediately discern depth and movement as someone who has had vision since birth?
(a) Someone who has cataracts removed.
(b) Everyone who is sighted can immediately discern depth and movement.
(c) Someone who closes the eyes for more than a few seconds and then opens them.
(d) Blind people who recover their sight.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do sorters learn to do their job?

2. What did some commentators say about the incident with the actor?

3. What disease does Eagleman mention in support of his argument about free will?

4. What does Eagleton think many sub-routines of our mind are doing?

5. How much of the activity of our brain does the conscious mind represent?

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