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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter Five, Hands.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Sacks' questions in the main character unable to answer?
(a) Where his proper arm is
(b) Where his proper hands are
(c) Where his proper leg is
(d) Where his proper face is

2. What is the technical term of Jimmie G.'s disorder?
(a) Prosopagnosia
(b) Retrograde Amnesia
(c) Agnosia
(d) Amnesia

3. Sacks is a:
(a) Philosopher
(b) Economist
(c) Neuroscientist
(d) Journalist

4. What aspect of his patients is Sacks concerned to communicate to his reader?
(a) Their representation of self
(b) Their diagnosis
(c) Their treatment
(d) Their neurological defect

5. Where is the main character sitting when the nurses find him?
(a) On the side of his bed
(b) In the hall
(c) In a chair
(d) On the floor

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dr. Sacks respond to the main character?

2. At what stage of Sacks' career does he encounter the main character of Chapter Four?

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

4. What is the main character's most frustrating disability?

5. What is proprioception?

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