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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 There's Someone In My Head, But It's Not Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?
(a) How attractive they found women's faces in photographs they are shown.
(b) The ease at drawing a simple picture they are shown.
(c) The ease at remembering names.
(d) How easy it is to solve a given problem.

2. 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.

3. How complex is the human brain?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Almost unfathomably complex.
(c) Parts are simple and parts are somewhat complex.
(d) Fairly simple.

4. What happens when one's brain changes?
(a) The person changes.
(b) The person can become a genius.
(c) The person cannot change.
(d) The person is no longer functional.

5. When does Arthur Alberts travel from New York to Africa?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1949.
(d) 2004.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?

2. What is the consistency of the brain?

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

4. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?

5. How does Alberts convince one African that the native's tongue is still intact?

(see the answer key)

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