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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. Who is the main character of this chapter?
(a) Mrs. S
(b) Mr. P
(c) Mr. MacGregor
(d) Christina
2. Sacks sees himself as having what kind of personality?
(a) Neither
(b) A Romantic
(c) Both
(d) A Clinician
3. How does the main character seem when Sacks meets him?
(a) Calm and even tempered
(b) Fearful and uneasy
(c) Agitaged and concerned
(d) Upbeat and joyful
4. Sacks' book is different from a college textbook in that it:
(a) Has a more scientific style
(b) Has a slower pace
(c) Has a friendlier style
(d) Has a more rushed style
5. Why would the disorder described in the chapter be a bad thing?
(a) The brain does process information properly when patients feel their phantom limbs.
(b) Patients get angry when they rediscover they do not have limbs.
(c) Patients are disturbed by their false sensations.
(d) Patients do not recover from losing a limb.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what place does Jimmie recover a part of himself?
2. What surgery is the main character admitted into the hospital to have?
3. The main character has a high level of intelligence, allowing him/her to accomplish what despite his/her disability?
4. How many children does the main character have?
5. What word does Dr. Sacks use to describe the way the main character feels?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is the main character in this chapter? What is his affliction? How does it affect him?
2. How does the main character handle her grandmother's death? What activities does she start in? Which does she end up in?
3. What is the change in the main character's demeanor in the chapter and why?
4. Why does Sacks think that phantom limb syndrome might be importantly beneficial to a patient who has lost a limb?
5. What is the main character's affliction? How it is treated?
6. How does Christina cope with her condition?
7. How does Sacks see the relationship between memory and life? How does Sacks see the connection in Jimmie G.?
8. Speculate as to why Sacks included Hildegard of Bingen in this book.
9. Who are the two main character's in this chapter? What is their affliction called and what does it generally consist in?
10. What is the cause of the main character's affliction? When is it first treated? When does it return?
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