How Your Brain Works — Questions and answers

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Besides the laws of motion and universal gravitation, what was Isaac Newton deeply interested in?

Choices

  1. A. Playing on the seashore.
  2. B. Optics, experimenting with prisms and light. ✓
  3. C. Collecting smoother pebbles and prettier shells.
  4. D. Discovering new oceans.

Answer: B. Optics, experimenting with prisms and light.

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What was Isaac Newton trying to understand in his garden?

Choices

  1. A. How to grow different colored leaves.
  2. B. How light breaks into different colors when passed through glass. ✓
  3. C. How to make rainbows disappear from the paper.
  4. D. How to hide from Ezra.

Answer: B. How light breaks into different colors when passed through glass.

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Which part of Atlas's brain controls his breathing when he is swimming?

Choices

  1. A. His cerebellum.
  2. B. His frontal lobe.
  3. C. His medulla oblongata. ✓
  4. D. His amygdala.

Answer: C. His medulla oblongata.

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