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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 had people noticed about Whitman in some months before his death?
(a) His behavior had changed.
(b) He seemed to feel much despair.
(c) He seemed full of hope.
(d) He seemed the same as always.

2. What might some people think the realization that our conscious minds are not as central as we once thought will do?
(a) Make some people despair.
(b) Diminish our humanity and importance.
(c) Make some people justify their poor choices.
(d) Make some people relieved to know that.

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

4. How does one device "show" a blind person his/her proximity to objects?
(a) It uses a series of electrodes on the back that pulsed in different ways according to the person's proximity to objects.
(b) It pushes the person in one direction or another when it senses an obstacle.
(c) It gives a slight electrical shock to the person's arm where it is attached.
(d) It beeps when its sensors notice an object in the person's path.

5. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?
(a) The way the images fit together.
(b) The way the images are recorded as fact but much more exists that the video camera does not capture.
(c) The way the images are bounced through the mind like light in a camera.
(d) The full story.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Whitman die?

2. What role does Eagleman discuss of genetics and social components?

3. What does Eagleman say about implicit egotism?

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

5. What did others say about the incident?

(see the answer key)

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