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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3, 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was it difficult for Sacks to proceed through the land of limbo?
(a) He had no music.
(b) He had no traveling companions.
(c) There was no map or chart.
(d) There was no God figure present.

2. What concerto did Sacks listen to on a cassette tape?
(a) Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major.
(b) Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5.
(c) Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.
(d) Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B Minor.

3. Why did Sacks have strong legs?
(a) He swam regularly.
(b) He had worked out at the gym for many years.
(c) He was a veteran hiker.
(d) He ran marathons.

4. Who has written about the "occasions of poetry" (pg 9)?
(a) T. S. Eliot.
(b) Thomas Gunn.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Admiral Nelson.

5. When riding to the hospital where he would be operated on, Sacks felt dread. How was this different from the dread he had felt on the mountain?
(a) This dread was fear of man rather than fear of natural consequences.
(b) This dread was less human and more animalistic.
(c) This dread was deeper than the first.
(d) This dread was distorted and nameless.

Short Answer Questions

1. Essentially, why could Sacks not tense up the quadriceps?

2. How did Sacks descend the mountain?

3. Why was Sacks so happy that he could do fifty chin-ups?

4. What was the main injury that Sacks was able to identify?

5. How long did it take Sacks to reach the final understanding of his various thoughts?

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