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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 Mind: The Gap.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose brains must learn to make sense of visual input coming in?
(a) People who start wearing glasses.
(b) People who have had an eye injured and do not see out of it for a while.
(c) People who move to a different culture.
(d) Blind people who recover their sight.

2. How do most people perform the motion on question number 62?
(a) They go counter-clockwise.
(b) They turn the wheel slightly to the right, then straighten it out again.
(c) They go clockwise.
(d) They turn the wheel slightly to the left, then straighten it out again.

3. When an action becomes automatic, what part of the brain is controlling it?
(a) The superconscious mind.
(b) It depends upon what the action entails.
(c) The unconscious mind.
(d) The conscious mind.

4. How does the author refer to the brain?
(a) As the guts of the individual life.
(b) As the mission control center.
(c) As the organ that works in tandem with the heart.
(d) As five pounds of power.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How complex is the human brain?

3. By what are thoughts underpinned?

4. What does Eagleman say about people who marry that is related to the idea of implicit egotism?

5. What seems natural to most people?

(see the answer key)

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