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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 and Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Sacks was excited about buying books written by a man named Head. What was the author's first name?
(a) Herbert.
(b) Howard.
(c) Hugo.
(d) Henry.

3. According to Sacks, why does he not end his story after his rescue?
(a) The accident is closely connected to the story of recovery.
(b) The focus of the book is the recovery, not the accident.
(c) The book was not long enough to stop.
(d) He had so many ideas left to convey.

4. What two sounds was Sacks caught between?
(a) The tunelessness of man and the melody of woman.
(b) The silence of hell and the cry of man.
(c) The song of the earth and the silence of man.
(d) The tune of man and the din of hell.

5. What tragedy did Darwin experience, which Sacks explains?
(a) He turned against art as inessential to life.
(b) He became more happy as he learned more science.
(c) He lost his taste for science.
(d) He lost his taste for art and music.

Short Answer Questions

1. Montaigne, Kant, and Einstein all agree that there is no substitute for what?

2. Who has written about the "occasions of poetry" (pg 9)?

3. According to the plane captain, what is the first lesson a patient must learn?

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

5. Previous to his accident, how did Sacks think things were accomplished in the world?

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