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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 The Brain Is a Team of Rivals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are we actually unaware of?
(a) What is happening in real time.
(b) What is happening.
(c) The small nuances.
(d) Subtleties of change.

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

3. For what was the actor in #109 arrested in 2006?
(a) Tax evasion.
(b) Bad acting.
(c) Wife abuse.
(d) Driving while intoxicated.

4. What were men then shown for a longer period of time?
(a) Pictures of cars with women beside them.
(b) Pictures of abstract figures that resembled the female figure.
(c) The same pictures of the women.
(d) Colors splashed randomly on the paper.

5. In what number range does the author say the brain cells count?
(a) Hundreds of trillions.
(b) Hundreds of thousands.
(c) Trillions of trillions.
(d) Hundreds of billions.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age does Mike May lose his vision?

2. What do some brain scientists propose?

3. What does Eagleman say can get in the way of our efficiency?

4. What was disorienting for May?

5. Why did the subjects say about why they chose the pictures of the women that they did?

(see the answer key)

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