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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 Life After the Monarchy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What indicates a state of sexual arousal in women?
(a) Dilated eyes.
(b) Lack of focus.
(c) It varies individual to individual.
(d) Closed eyes.

2. What is the orbitofrontal cortex?
(a) The area of the brain where the spinal column meets the brain tissue.
(b) The area of the brain that often determines psychosis.
(c) The area of the brain that determines right or left handedness.
(d) The area of the brain affected by Alex's tumor.

3. What have we humans thrown ourselves into deciphering?
(a) Our own programming language.
(b) Our emotional world.
(c) The language of individual, specialized cells.
(d) Our means of connecting the brain to the heart.

4. What does the theory of evolution imply?
(a) That it is hopeful to think in terms of humans changing very fast.
(b) That our brains may evolve into super computers.
(c) That humans are simply one species among many that evolved on earth.
(d) That it is hopeless to think in terms of humans changing very fast.

5. When does Arthur Alberts travel from New York to Africa?
(a) 2004.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1949.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do some scientist define intelligence?

2. What proved difficult in programming robots?

3. What is another way that demonstrates the power of the brain to define who we are?

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

5. What does Eagleman think is a good model for how the brain works?

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