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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter Three, The Disembodied Lady.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surgery is the main character admitted into the hospital to have?
(a) Back surgery
(b) Gallbladder surgery
(c) Kidney transplant
(d) Appendectomy

2. There is a disorder where patients suddenly lose part of their memory back to a certain date or time period. What is it called?
(a) Retrograde Amensia
(b) Postgrade Amensia
(c) Long-term Amnesia
(d) Short-term Amnesia

3. What is proprioception?
(a) The sense of smell.
(b) The sense that monitors physical movement.
(c) The sense of taste.
(d) The sense that monitors the heartbeat.

4. The character's condition is caused by polyneuritis, which is:
(a) Damaging of the pain centers of the nerves attached to skin
(b) Damaging of the pain centers of the spinal and cranial nerves
(c) Damaging of the sensory roots of the nerves attached to skin
(d) Damaging of the sensory roots of the spinal and cranial nerves

5. Who is the neuroscientist Sacks receives advice from in Chapter 1?
(a) Petersen
(b) Luria
(c) Edelman
(d) Pinker

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the consequence scientists pay when they ignore the a patient's high cognitive function?

2. After Dr. Sacks and Mr. P part ways, how much longer does Mr. P teach music?

3. Sacks' book is different from a college textbook in that it:

4. The main character's disorder involves a breakdown of cooperation between which three body systems?

5. Who is the main character of this chapter?

(see the answer key)

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