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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Eagleman then change the puzzle?
(a) He makes it about breeds of dogs.
(b) He makes it about people and their occupations.
(c) He makes it about breeds of cats.
(d) He makes it about people and their ages.

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

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

4. How do some scientist define intelligence?
(a) The ability to think more than a couple steps ahead of a task.
(b) The ability to make very fine distinctions.
(c) The ability to mix emotion with thought.
(d) Many small actions that can be performed without conscious thinking coming together.

5. What do we perceive about the limits of our conscious knowledge?
(a) We know there are limits but don't always recognize when we've reached one.
(b) We know there are no limits but we often act as if there are.
(c) Our conscious mind in its egoistic state does not believe there are limits.
(d) We do not know what the limits of our conscious knowledge is.

6. What creature does Eagleman use as an example of one with an excellent sense of smell?
(a) Tiger.
(b) Cat.
(c) Wolf.
(d) Bloodhound.

7. What assumption does Eagleman dismiss?
(a) That the brain's health affects intelligence.
(b) That the brain is able to heal itself of most problems.
(c) That people have control over their behavior not matter what.
(d) That all people are equally equipped to make sound and rational decisions.

8. What does Chapter 4 explore?
(a) How the conscious and unconscious minds can be complementary.
(b) The ways our conscious thinking get us in trouble.
(c) The limits to our unconscious thinking.
(d) The limits to our conscious thinking.

9. What does Eagleman say is difficult?
(a) Believing that our unconscious is so aware.
(b) Understanding and accepting that much of our minds is inaccessible to our conscious selves.
(c) Knowing that we have very little true free will.
(d) Believing that our unconscious is so unaware.

10. From what was Alex suffering at the time?
(a) Serious headaches.
(b) Delusions of grandeur.
(c) Eczema.
(d) Depression.

11. What is exceptional about the creature mentioned in question 89?
(a) They can smell an odor on the air even after several days.
(b) They can smell the fleas on them.
(c) They can smell odors after weeks have passed.
(d) They can sense a whole range of odors that human beings cannot sense.

12. What does Eagleman say about the question as to whether the actor is racist or not?
(a) The question is fairly black and white.
(b) The question is more complex than either/or.
(c) If the question could be answered, we'd all be in trouble for the way we think.
(d) The question is rhetorical and not important.

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

14. How did Whitman die?
(a) Shot by the police.
(b) Falls out of a tower.
(c) Electrical shock.
(d) Lightening.

15. What question has been addressed by philosophers for ages?
(a) Nature versus nurture.
(b) Whether humans truly have free will.
(c) How much we should be accountable for our actions.
(d) Which came first the genetic tendency or the action that stimulates the gene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eagleton point out in the beginning of the chapter about our senses?

2. What argument does Eagleman say he is not making?

3. What happens when a rat is presented with a similar dilemma as the one in question 129?

4. What does Eagleman say the majority of criminals are?

5. What does Eagleton think many sub-routines of our mind are doing?

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