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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seventeen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the answer to #31 typically precede, according to previous case studies in Sacks' research?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Heart attacks.
(c) Surgeries.
(d) Epileptic seizures.

2. Sacks discusses the way that ________ can change in people who are in the middle of a migraine attack.
(a) Ideas.
(b) Diseases.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Moods.

3. To deny a migraine sufferer the use of ___________ would be cruel, according to Sacks in this book.
(a) Hot baths.
(b) Illegal drugs.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Alcohol.

4. The 53-year-old woman who is studied in this section reports a feeling of ______ right before the onset of her migraine.
(a) Well being.
(b) Rage.
(c) Grief.
(d) Sadness.

5. In Sacks' mind, there is no reason to believe that ________ do not suffer from migraines as well, according to his logic.
(a) Animals.
(b) Plants.
(c) Babies.
(d) Comatose patients.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sacks says that _________ may prompt a migraine or might be a part of the unit of the overall event.

2. The man with an extreme aura seems to think he is in _________ when he is actually in New York.

3. What is identified as crude images among the possible visualizations that a patient can see during their migraine attack?

4. The _________ migraine is one that comes to light when a patient is highly emotional and tends toward intense rage.

5. The ________ is the word traditionally associated with the sensory illusions that a migraine sufferer may experience.

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