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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. If someone moves slightly towards the word dislike before choosing the word like, what does that indicate?
(a) The experiment is weighted unfairly.
(b) The person is undecided.
(c) A conflict between the unconscious and conscious minds.
(d) The experiment is set up poorly.

2. What do we perceive about the limits of our conscious knowledge?
(a) We know there are limits but don't always recognize when we've reached one.
(b) Our conscious mind in its egoistic state does not believe there are limits.
(c) We know there are no limits but we often act as if there are.
(d) We do not know what the limits of our conscious knowledge is.

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

4. What does Eagleton point out in the beginning of the chapter about our senses?
(a) They are an illusion.
(b) They only exist to serve the body.
(c) They are limited.
(d) They only exist to serve the mind.

5. What can insects do that human beings cannot do?
(a) They can hear light as well as see it.
(b) Insects can see wavelengths we cannot see.
(c) They can see both sound and light.
(d) They can see the entire spectrum of light.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were men asked to rate in an experiment the author cites?

2. What did others say about the incident?

3. How do most people perform the motion on question number 62?

4. What is another type of brain cell?

5. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?

(see the answer key)

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