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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapter Twenty, The Visions of Hildegard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main character's affliction?
(a) Elevated Proprioception
(b) Elevated Sense of Smell
(c) Elevated Sex Drive
(d) Elevated Hearing

2. What is the main character's primary affliction?
(a) Cannot remember who she is
(b) Cannot understand faces
(c) Cannot see the right-side of her visual field
(d) Cannot see whole personalities

3. The chapter covers a disorder where people who have lost limbs believe and feel that they are still there. What is this disorder called?
(a) Illusory Limb Disease
(b) Phantom Limb Syndrome
(c) Illusory Limb Syndrome
(d) Phantom Limb Disease

4. What is the cause of the main character's inability to use one of her body parts?
(a) There is no cause; it is an illusion.
(b) A Virus
(c) Cerebral Palsy
(d) Blindness

5. How does the main character's emotions change when he wakes up from his nap?
(a) Upbeat and joyful
(b) Fearful and uneasy
(c) Agitated and angry
(d) Calm and even tempered

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the main character kill?

2. What is the technical term of Jimmie G.'s disorder?

3. Dr. P is a teacher of what?

4. What is the disorder discussed in the chapter named by Sacks?

5. Which medicine is used to calm down the main character?

(see the answer key)

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