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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Why Blameworthiness Is the Wrong Question.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eagleman claim most people possess?
(a) A natural tendency to dislike ourselves.
(b) A natural tendency to like ourselves.
(c) A natural tendency to dislike ourselves.
(d) A natural tendency to like others.

2. What does each human brain cell contain in its entirety?
(a) The human genome.
(b) A way to process information.
(c) A way to produce energy.
(d) A way to manufacture food.

3. What is one of the types of cells in the brain?
(a) Hepatic.
(b) Neurons.
(c) Nephrons.
(d) Erythrocytes.

4. What are those people called who sort out baby chickens by their gender?
(a) Chicken sexers.
(b) Sorters.
(c) Chickeners.
(d) They do not have a name.

5. How does the author describe parts of the brain?
(a) As discrete units that can be individually programmed.
(b) As self-configuring.
(c) As radically different one from the other.
(d) As independent of each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Alberts take along a tape recorder on his journey?

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

3. What assumption is at the core of the American legal system?

4. What does the amount of brain effort that vision uses indicate about vision?

5. What does the amygdala regulate?

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