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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What part of the main character's body does he have a problem with?
(a) His hands
(b) His arm
(c) His leg
(d) His face

4. For Sacks it is important to treat his patients with:
(a) Respect
(b) A Helping Hand
(c) Love
(d) Disdain

5. How do the main character's nurses help him/her fix his/her disability?
(a) Giving the patient electroshock therapy.
(b) Putting medicine in the patient's IV.
(c) Recommending surgery.
(d) Putting a food tray out of reach.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the main character treated?

2. What is Dr. Sacks' treatment of the main character?

3. How does the main character seem when Sacks meets him?

4. Which part of the main character's body does he/she refer to as "lumps of dough?"

5. The main character's affliction causes her to feel how?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the main character's affliction? What crime is he on trial for? What is the outcome of the trial?

2. What is the cause of Christina's condition? Do scientists think it is a plausible cause?

3. What is the main character's response to her treatment? How does she react?

4. How does Sacks react to Mrs. B's view about her own condition?

5. How does Christina cope with her condition?

6. What is the change in the main character's demeanor in the chapter and why?

7. What is the main character's affliction? How it is treated?

8. What is proprioception? What does losing it prevent you from doing?

9. Which activities return the main character to normal? Why?

10. Sacks claims that he is trying to mix two different parts of his personality. Which two parts are these and how does he attempt to mix them?

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