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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sacks thinks of his patients as:
(a) Tragedies
(b) Friends
(c) Heroes
(d) Villains

2. Which medicine is used to calm down the main character?
(a) Haldol
(b) Luvox
(c) Depicote
(d) Abilify

3. How old is the character in this chapter?
(a) Late forties
(b) Sixties
(c) Early thirties
(d) Late twenties

4. Sacks is different from a fiction writer because:
(a) He is more scientific and philosophical than most.
(b) He is not a trained writer.
(c) He has less education than most fiction writers.
(d) He is a bad writer.

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

6. Which sort of memory does Jimmie G. lack?
(a) Long-term Memory
(b) Semantic Memory
(c) Tactile Memory
(d) Short-term Memory

7. How old is the main character?
(a) Seventy-Three
(b) Ninety-Three
(c) Eighty-Three
(d) Ninety

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

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

10. What is the main character's affliction?
(a) The patient tilts to one side when walking but is unaware of it.
(b) The patient is paralyzed from the waist down but is unaware of it.
(c) The patient has lost a limb but is unaware of it.
(d) The patient is stuck in 1955 in his mind but is unaware of it.

11. What branch of the armed services was Jimmie G. in?
(a) The Marines
(b) The Army
(c) The Navy
(d) The Air Force

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

13. The main character cannot perceive:
(a) Objects on her left
(b) Objects with color
(c) Objects that are square
(d) Objects on her right

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

15. What is the name of the main character mentioned in the postscript?
(a) Witty Ticcy Ray
(b) Mr. P
(c) Miguel
(d) Jimmie G.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main character in this chapter?

2. Where is the main character sitting when the nurses find him?

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

4. How many children does the main character have?

5. Who is the main character of the chapter?

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