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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. 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.

2. What is a visual phantom?
(a) When a patient has hallucinations of past events.
(b) When a patient's perception is confused and they cannot navigate well.
(c) When a patient sees shapes and colors that are not there.
(d) When a patient has a persistent hallucination of a person or other being accompanying or harassing him/her.

3. What is the main character's affliction?
(a) Cupid's disease
(b) Tourette's syndrome
(c) Korsakov's disease
(d) Phantom Limb Syndrome

4. What is the first man worried about?
(a) Poking his eye out.
(b) Breaking his finger.
(c) Cutting his leg.
(d) Tripping over his foot.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many cases are covered in this chapter?

2. What is the main character's affliction?

3. What are the effects of the main character's affliction?

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

5. Why does the main character confabulate?

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