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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapter Eighteen, The Dog Beneath the Skin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main character's occupation?
(a) Nurse
(b) Medical Student
(c) Lawyer
(d) Doctor

2. Who is the main character of this chapter?
(a) Jimmie G.
(b) William
(c) Witty Ticcy Ray
(d) Miguel

3. Why does the main character confabulate?
(a) He cannot remember his own life story
(b) He cannot perceive his right leg
(c) He cannot understand what people say
(d) He cannot figure out who others are

4. Why would the disorder described in the chapter be a bad thing?
(a) Patients are disturbed by their false sensations.
(b) The brain does process information properly when patients feel their phantom limbs.
(c) Patients get angry when they rediscover they do not have limbs.
(d) Patients do not recover from losing a limb.

5. Things aren't real to the main character until he has?
(a) Smelled Them
(b) Heard Them
(c) Taste Them
(d) Touched Them

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter covers a disorder where people who have lost limbs believe and feel that they are still there. What is this disorder called?

2. To what extent does the main character recognize his disorder?

3. What is the main character's affliction?

4. What is the main character's affliction?

5. Who is the main character of this chapter?

(see the answer key)

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