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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sacks climbed a particular stretch of ground in just over an hour. How long did it take him to descend this same stretch?
(a) Half an hour.
(b) Nearly seven hours.
(c) Two hours.
(d) Three hours.

2. What book does Sacks model his own book after?
(a) The Woman with the Shattered Dreams.
(b) The Man with the Shattered World.
(c) The Man in the Shattered Hope.
(d) The Man with the Shattered Arm.

3. While waiting for villagers to arrive and take him to the hospital, how did Sacks feel?
(a) Comfortable and happy.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Worried about the doctor's prognosis.
(d) Thrilled to be alive.

4. Who wrote the book which was the model for Sacks's own book?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Luria.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Nietzsche.

5. What does Sacks think of when he remembers the Biblical words, "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time or die; a time . . ." (pg 26)?
(a) His wife's untimely death.
(b) The futility of life.
(c) His patients who were prepared for death.
(d) The waste of good health and energy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sacks hope to see when he reached the mountain's summit?

2. What was the primary reason that Sacks decided not to yell a second time?

3. What word does Sacks use most to describe the bull?

4. What did Sacks think about as he moved down the mountain?

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

(see the answer key)

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