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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the main character kill?
(a) His Sister
(b) His Grandmother
(c) His Girlfriend
(d) His Mother

2. What is the name of the main character in this chapter?
(a) Christina
(b) Mrs. O'M
(c) Mrs. O'C
(d) Rose R.

3. What is the treatment the main character undergoes?
(a) L-Amictal
(b) L-Dopa
(c) L-Acroymose
(d) L-Depikote

4. Who is the main character of this chapter?
(a) Odo of Cluny
(b) Hildegard of Bingen
(c) Peter Damien
(d) Charlemaigne

5. Who is the main character of this chapter?
(a) Jimmie
(b) Mr. P
(c) Ray
(d) Martin

6. What does the disorder consist in?
(a) Intense religous experiences
(b) The loss of one's sense of self
(c) The loss of one's sense of self-control
(d) Mental transports to others times or places

7. How does the main character describe what is happening to her?
(a) She is
(b) She is
(c) She is
(d) She is

8. What are the symptoms of the main character's affliction?
(a) She has visions and seizures with a dream-like state
(b) She forgets who she is and invents new identities
(c) She has incredible pain throughout her body
(d) She can no longer see

9. What has the main character experienced over the last twenty-four years?
(a) Deep Depression
(b) A Trance
(c) A Coma
(d) Fits of Rage

10. What is the main character's occupation?
(a) Medical Student
(b) Doctor
(c) Lawyer
(d) Nurse

11. When is the affliction discovered and treated? When is it rediscovered?
(a) Age 4 and 45
(b) Age 6 and 25
(c) Age 7 and 18
(d) Age 5 and 35

12. What is the main character's disorder?
(a) Agnosia
(b) Transcendence
(c) Aphasia
(d) Reminiscence

13. Where did James Parkinson identify Parkinsonism?
(a) In the streets of London
(b) In an old folks home in London
(c) In a hospital in London
(d) In a lab in London

14. What is the cause of their ability?
(a) An Enlarged Temporal Lobe
(b) A Dense Frontal Cortex
(c) A Lesion in the Amygdala
(d) No one knows

15. Things aren't real to the main character until he has?
(a) Touched Them
(b) Heard Them
(c) Taste Them
(d) Smelled Them

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main character of this chapter?

2. The second main character in the chapter hears what over and over again?

3. What is the disorder discussed in the chapter named by Sacks?

4. How does the main character handle her grandmother's death?

5. What is the twins' special ability?

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