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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 eyes both work the same in both groups.
(b) The person who is sighted from birth can see better in low light.
(c) The formerly blind person's eyes often do not work in tandem.
(d) The formerly blind person's eyes often only work in strong light.

2. What was disorienting for May?
(a) The way colors affected the appearance of shapes.
(b) The way steps seemed unattached to the earth.
(c) The sudden shift of objects in his visual field when he turned his head.
(d) The way shapes affected the appearance of colors.

3. How does Alberts convince one African that the native's tongue is still intact?
(a) Using a mirror.
(b) Pulling on the tongue in question.
(c) Having the man sing.
(d) Having the man hold his tongue and try to talk.

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

5. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?
(a) Our sight can be inaccurate.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Our sight can be erratic.
(d) Our vision can be fooled.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do major league baseball players begin their swing while batting?

2. Who is one person the author mentions as understanding the arrangement between the conscious and unconscious mind?

3. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?

4. What does the device that takes visual input through a camera and translate it into impulses do?

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

(see the answer key)

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