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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 book does Sacks plan to write in the future?
(a) A book about patients who experienced the same body-ego alienation that he did.
(b) A book about his long-term recovery.
(c) A book about how this accident affected his medical practice.
(d) A book about how this accident affected his personal relationships in the long run.

2. What other word is connoted by the word "hell"?
(a) Helplessness.
(b) Help.
(c) Hole.
(d) Hellish.

3. When was Studies in Neurology published?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1940.

4. Shortly after the sun set, what extraordinary auditory experience did Sacks have?
(a) He could hear every living creature in the area.
(b) He could not hear anything outside himself.
(c) He could hear the movement of the plants around him.
(d) He could no longer hear himself.

5. When the father and his son rescued Sacks, what had they been doing just a moment before?
(a) Searching for him.
(b) Hunting reindeer.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Listening to the mass wafting up from the church.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was Sacks grateful to Dr. Henry Fleck?

3. In the quote about patient waiting, why must the person not think?

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

5. What analogy does Sacks refer to as he draws the relationship between science and art?

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