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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The waste of good health and energy.
(d) His patients who were prepared for death.

2. What did Sacks think when he woke from the surgery?
(a) That he had been asleep only a few minutes.
(b) That he had been asleep for seven hours.
(c) That he had been asleep for nearly a day.
(d) That he was tired and wanted to sleep.

3. How did Sacks descend the mountain?
(a) By "rowing" with his arms.
(b) By hobbling on his right leg.
(c) By rolling and sliding.
(d) By crawling.

4. How did Sacks meet the bull?
(a) He rounded a boulder and it was lying in the path.
(b) He came over a small rise and the bull was lying in the grass.
(c) The bull walked out of a stand of trees.
(d) The bull looked like a boulder until he got close to it.

5. How old was Sacks when he discovered the beauty of the world through the Pythagorean theorem?
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Eight.
(c) Five.
(d) Twelve.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what poor instrument did Sacks compare his injured leg?

2. What was the name of the physiotherapist?

3. What other word is connoted by the word "hell"?

4. The night after his surgery, what was the first of Sacks's nightmares?

5. How long did Sacks think about his injury before he began writing about it?

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