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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the hospital gardens, what set patients off from non-patients?

2. How does a person suffering from alienation of a limb think about that part of his body?

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

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

5. What tragedy did Darwin experience, which Sacks explains?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write full personality sketches of these three people: Nurse Solveig, Dr. Swan, and Miss Preston. What role does each person play in the recovery? What is Sacks's opinion of each? In what ways does each person hinder or help Sacks?

Essay Topic 2

What was Sacks's opinion of his leg while it was in the cast? Why did he have this opinion? Given what he says about his second injury some ten years later, how might he have changed this errant perception of his left leg in a cast?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the world of the convalescent home. How did Sacks change and grow stronger here? What did he learn about himself? How did the convalescent home allow him to approach the world again?

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