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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does one blind rock climber use a mechanical device to help climb?
(a) The device transmits impulses through the climber's tongue.
(b) There is no such device developed yet; it is in prototype stage.
(c) The device latches onto cracks and crevices and the climber follows the rope.
(d) The device beeps in code to say where a usable crack is locate.

2. 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 eventually becomes automatic and becomes an unconscious process.
(c) It is related to the ability to draw.
(d) It is related to the ability to reason abstractly.

3. 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 scribing geometric forms without a point of reference is almost impossible.
(c) To see how many will accept directions from a book.
(d) To show that the eyes visualize one thing while the brain carries it out another way.

4. What are those people called who sort out baby chickens by their gender?
(a) Chickeners.
(b) Sorters.
(c) They do not have a name.
(d) Chicken sexers.

5. What does Eagleman say can happen even after we learn to see?
(a) Our sight can be erratic.
(b) Our vision can be fooled.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Our sight can be inaccurate.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of our brain is devoted to sight?

2. What is the most important part of seeing?

3. What do our conscious minds remain unaware of in the analogy Eagleman offers?

4. To what does the author compare a single brain cell in its complexity?

5. How do hallways challenge May when he regains his sight?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eagleman say scientists continually study, and what is the result?

2. How can the brain see without eyes and what is one way this is possible?

3. What is seeing and what is the most important aspect of seeing?

4. What does Eagleman say Sigmund Freud understood?

5. What does Eagleman say about how vision works?

6. How is one's conscious mind limited and how does this make the mind more difficult to understand?

7. Who is Mike May and what happens to him?

8. What has to shift in order to fully appreciate the small role of the unconscious and to what does Eagleman compare that shift?

9. What is one example Eagleman gives of how one reacts to something before the person is even aware of the situation?

10. What has given greater insight into the workings of the mind since Freud's time?

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