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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. What do newborns seem to recognize?
(a) The smell of their mothers.
(b) The feel of their mothers' skin.
(c) Their existence as separate from others around them.
(d) The sound of their mothers' voices.

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

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

4. How does Eagleman compare thinking with seeing?
(a) There are thoughts that we cannot think, just as there are wavelengths of light we cannot see.
(b) Neither are infallible.
(c) Both involve the same area of the left brain.
(d) Both involve the right brain.

5. What is hard wired into our brains?
(a) Much of what motivates us and drives our behavior.
(b) Only the survival instinct.
(c) Nothing is actually hard wired into our brains.
(d) Things such as breathing and digestion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Eagleman pose about the actor?

2. From what was Alex suffering at the time?

3. How does Eagleman answer the question about whether the actor is racist or not?

4. What does Eagleman think some people would have said about Whitman had he lived?

5. What is the orbitofrontal cortex?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eagleman say about a man named Alex?

2. What does Chapter 4 explore?

3. What does Eagleman have readers consider about Whitman?

4. What happens when the frontal cortex is damaged?

5. What does a team of rivals have to do with the brain?

6. To what part of the body are newborns drawn and what does this imply about human beings' predisposition?

7. What does Eagleman say is hard wired into our brains?

8. Explain the study that was performed on how men rate a woman's attractiveness.

9. What comparison of thought to wavelengths does Eagleman make?

10. Explain the physical division in the brain and what can happen if the two hemispheres are severed.

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