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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. What was the occasion for this book?
(a) An accident with expected effects.
(b) Reading a book about an unusual patient.
(c) An accident with peculiar effects.
(d) The study of an unusual patient.

2. What town's hospital was Sacks taken to first?
(a) Odda's.
(b) London's.
(c) Bergen's.
(d) Oslo's.

3. According to Sacks, what was "the only proper posture of the soul at this time" (Chapter Three, pg 113)?
(a) Patience.
(b) Passivity and patience.
(c) Action.
(d) Action and prayer.

4. What was the name of the physiotherapist?
(a) Miss Preston.
(b) Miss Prestar.
(c) Miss Blanche.
(d) Mrs. Preston.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did scotoma overwhelm Sacks the most?

2. As the Sister took the stitches out of Sacks's leg, what did he think?

3. While in limbo, what feeling did Sacks have to allow, which he first found humiliating?

4. To what did Sacks's various thoughts and themes eventually lead in the end?

5. When did Sacks begin writing to Luria?

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