4. What are our brains wired to do as far as complicated tasks are concerned?
(a) To take the task apart and consciously learn it in steps.
(b) To consciously send the task to the unconscious mind to learn and then teach the conscious mind.
(c) Study the task carefully and then consciously decide which part of the brain would be best to perform the task.
(d) Let the unconscious mind perform the task.

5. What is difficult to do when it comes to sorting young chickens?
(a) Catching a chicken if it gets loose.
(b) Keeping the chickens grouped.
(c) Determining sex.
(d) Keeping the mother from pecking you.

6. 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.

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

8. What does Eagleman say about the ability to sort?
(a) You either have the ability at the very beginning or you can never learn it.
(b) It is related to the ability to reason abstractly.
(c) It eventually becomes automatic and becomes an unconscious process.
(d) It is related to the ability to draw.

9. What are two examples of optical illusions?
(a) A round circle looking elliptical.
(b) A square being a rectangle.
(c) The apparent motion of stationary images and the apparent change in size of images when their backgrounds are changed.
(d) Red looking black.

10. What tells us that we experience the world as it actually exists?
(a) Our previous experiences.
(b) Our intuition.
(c) Our knowledge.
(d) Our senses.

11. What is the consistency of the brain?
(a) Jello.
(b) Bread.
(c) Peanut butter.
(d) Milk.

12. When does the conscious mind actively train the unconscious mind?
(a) When the conscious mind shows signs of dysfunction.
(b) When there is a repetitive task to learn that the unconscious can do efficently.
(c) When there is a complicated task to learn.
(d) When the unconscious mind shows signs of dysfunction.

13. What was disorienting for May?
(a) The way colors affected the appearance of shapes.
(b) The sudden shift of objects in his visual field when he turned his head.
(c) The way shapes affected the appearance of colors.
(d) The way steps seemed unattached to the earth.

14. What is the point of the exercise Eagleman has readers perform?
(a) To understand the we do many things unconsciously that are difficult to recreate with the conscious mind.
(b) To show that the eyes visualize one thing while the brain carries it out another way.
(c) To see how many will accept directions from a book.
(d) To show that scribing geometric forms without a point of reference is almost impossible.

15. What gap does Eagleman explore?
(a) Between what your eyes see and what your brain shows you.
(b) Between what your brain knows and your mind is capable of accessing.
(c) Between what you want to see and what is actually there.
(d) Between what your brain receives in impulses and what it can interpret.