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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter Eight, Eyes Right!.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What feature of humans does Sacks wonder if Jimmie lacks?
(a) Long-term Memory
(b) Hearing
(c) Soul
(d) Smell

4. To what extent is Jimmie G's intelligence impaired?
(a) Not at all
(b) Moderately
(c) Severly
(d) Slightly

5. How does the patient respond to Sacks?
(a) He believes Sacks hesitantly.
(b) He argues with Sacks but eventually agrees with him.
(c) He recognizes that Sacks is right.
(d) He does not believe Sacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Sacks it is important to treat his patients with:

2. What was the main character's old line of work that helped in compensating for the main character's disorder?

3. What aspect of his patients is Sacks concerned to communicate to his reader?

4. Where does Sacks work at the time of this chapter?

5. What is the main character's affliction?

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