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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who, in Sacks's family, had worked closely with Head?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His brother.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

3. What happened to Sacks's writing style when he was forced to write with his left hand?
(a) It became more concise.
(b) It became melodramatic.
(c) It became heavy-hearted.
(d) It became more verbose.

4. What color did Head attribute to neurology?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Grey.
(d) Green.

5. When Sacks first entered into the field of neurology, what excited him most?
(a) The fact that he would not perform surgery anymore.
(b) The possibility for helping ill people.
(c) The challenge of learning the field.
(d) The challenge of concepts and abstractions.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Sacks returned to his room, what was the weather like?

2. According to Kant, how does a man stand in relation to the world?

3. When moving out of his tiny hospital room, why did Sacks see the world as two-dimensional?

4. What word does Nietzsche use to describe the feeling that convalescence brings?

5. Why did Sacks refer to the doctor's visits as "odious" (Chapter Six, pg 159)?

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