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The primary damage to Phineas Gage’s brain was in the part marked _________ in the diagram below.

Based solely on the description above, Marie would most likely score LOW along what Big-5 personality dimension?  

Which of the reagent(s) shown can be used to carry out the given conversion?

Tiana is mildly allergic to cat hair. Whenever Tiana encounters cat hair, it automatically makes her feel really itchy and scratch her face. Tiana has a favorite University of Wisconsin blanket that her college roommate’s cat always gets hair on. As such, whenever Tiana uses the blanket herself, she starts scratching her face and feeling itchy.  Tiana goes to her parent’s house for winter break and she finds that her mother has bought her an identical University of Wisconsin blanket as the one Tiana has in her college apartment. However, as soon as Tiana uses it, even though her parents do not have any pets and there is no cat hair on the blanket, Tiana nonetheless starts scratching her face and feeling itchy.     In the example of classical conditioning above, the Tiana’s scratching in response to the blanket at her parent’s house is the: 

What is the predicted product of the reaction shown?  

Provide the reagents necessary to carry out the conversion shown.

Which one of the choices is the strongest acid?

What is the predicted final product of the reaction sequence shown?

Which one of the compounds shown would undergo racemization at the a-stereocenter in the presence of a base?

Which of the compounds shown is the strongest acid?