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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. P do to keep himself oriented?
(a) Memorizes routines
(b) Sings to himself
(c) Asks for help
(d) Follows his wife's instructions

2. What is his problem with body?
(a) He believes that his leg is someone else's.
(b) He believes that his arm is someone else's.
(c) He believes that his face is someone else's.
(d) He believes that his hands are someone else's.

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

4. How does the main character seem when Sacks meets him?
(a) Agitaged and concerned
(b) Calm and even tempered
(c) Fearful and uneasy
(d) Upbeat and joyful

5. Who is the main character of this chapter?
(a) Oliver Sacks
(b) Jimmie G.
(c) Christina
(d) Mr. P

6. The main character's disorder involves a breakdown of cooperation between which three body systems?
(a) Hearing, balance organs, and proprioception
(b) Vision, balance organs, and proprioception
(c) Hearing, proprioception, and vision
(d) Hearing, balance organs, and vision

7. How is the main character treated?
(a) He/She is given a wheel chair so he/she can turn right
(b) He/She is given a wheelchair so he/she can go to the bathroom on his/her own
(c) He/She is given a wheelchair so he/she can turn left
(d) He/She is given a wheelchair to give him/her a sense of independence

8. Why doesn't the introduction of a video system work?
(a) The patient is upset by his/her unkempt appearance
(b) The patient does not like to be reminded of his/her disability
(c) The patient can't work the video system
(d) The patient is disturbed that he/she can only perceive half of his/her body

9. The main character in this chapter has which affliction?
(a) Hemiplegia
(b) Prosopagnosia
(c) Agnosia
(d) Aphasia

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

11. What is the consequence scientists pay when they ignore the a patient's high cognitive function?
(a) They are unable to empathize with their patients.
(b) They can do nothing to help their patients.
(c) They are out of touch with reality.
(d) They cannot diagnose their patients properly.

12. How does the main character compensate for his/her disorder?
(a) By constructing a wheelchair that compensates
(b) By constructing a prosthesis that compensates
(c) By constructing a pair of glasses that compensate
(d) Requesting brain surgery

13. What was the main character's old line of work that helped in compensating for the main character's disorder?
(a) Farming
(b) Pottery
(c) Carpentry
(d) Aviation

14. Sacks sees his patients as:
(a) Real people
(b) Mere case studies
(c) Mere medical files
(d) Crazy

15. What additional form of memory can people with Jimmie G.'s disorder lose?
(a) Olfactory Memory
(b) Auditory Memory
(c) Sensual Memory
(d) Visual Memory

Short Answer Questions

1. What year does Sacks think Jimmie G's memory should have stopped?

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

3. How many cases are covered in this chapter?

4. How old is the main character?

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

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