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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eagleman say we cannot think?
(a) Something that is contrary to the implicit ego.
(b) Some thoughts.
(c) Abstract ideas in a third dimension.
(d) There is nothing we cannot think.

2. At what do babies tend to look?
(a) Their own hands.
(b) Faces.
(c) The heart are where the sound of the heart beat is.
(d) Hands.

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

4. How is the problem solved?
(a) Making the recurring numbers bolder.
(b) Finding how latitude is divided first.
(c) Breaking the task into smaller routines.
(d) Using skin pads.

5. What does the logic puzzle that Eagleman challenges readers with involve?
(a) Colors and shapes.
(b) Light and dark shapes.
(c) Colors and numbers.
(d) Shapes and numbers.

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

7. What example does Eagleman offer to illustrate how sub-routines of our mind work?
(a) A person both wanting and not wanting to move.
(b) A person both wanting and not wanting a new job.
(c) A person both wanting and not wanting to exercise.
(d) A person both wanting and not wanting a piece of cake.

8. What has a role in how genetic tendencies might be expressed?
(a) Which genes are recessive versus dominant.
(b) Whether a trigger is there to activate a bad behavior gene.
(c) If the genes are from the paternal or maternal side of the child.
(d) A person's upbringing and environment.

9. How does Eagleman compare the conscious mind to the senses in a human being?
(a) Both have limits.
(b) Senses have limits but the conscious mind does not.
(c) Senses do not have limits but the conscious mind does.
(d) Neither have limits.

10. From what does Eagleman say our ultimate behavior springs?
(a) As a result of the physical and emotional working in conjunction with each other.
(b) As a result of the biological balance within our brain.
(c) As a result of values taught to us at a young age.
(d) As a result of our individual intelligence.

11. What was discovered about Alex's health?
(a) He was schizophrenic.
(b) He had a brain tumor.
(c) He had a self-immune disorder.
(d) He was low on several minerals.

12. What does Eagleton think many sub-routines of our mind are doing?
(a) Competing with each other.
(b) Clashing with each other.
(c) Leading and following each other.
(d) Complementing each other.

13. To what do human beings seem to be predisposed without prior learning?
(a) To be attracted to faces.
(b) To understand what motivates our desires.
(c) To be attracted to voices.
(d) To want to understand what motivates our desires.

14. What does the amygdala regulate?
(a) Emotions such as aggression and fear.
(b) Emotions such as love and joy.
(c) Logical thought processes.
(d) Breathing.

15. How does Eagleman explain the phenomenon as to how men made their choices in the experiment?
(a) Men are attracted to women who have the same ethnic looks as themselves.
(b) It is socially ingrained from advertisements.
(c) The cars that men chose were the ones that had the most attractive women standing by them.
(d) It goes back to the early history of humankind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What assumption does Eagleman dismiss?

2. What is the orbitofrontal cortex?

3. What is exceptional about the creature mentioned in question 89?

4. What problem does Eagleman describe in illustrating how the mind may be divided?

5. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?

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