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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the plane captain, what is the first lesson a patient must learn?
(a) Hopefulness.
(b) Peace.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Patience.

2. Why is the phrase "uneventful recovery" misleading?
(a) Recovery is actually a series of events.
(b) Recovery is the greatest event of the patient's life.
(c) Recovery has no relationship to events.
(d) The phrase implies a peaceful recovery, which is never possible.

3. What is the essential idea of Thomas Mann's quote?
(a) The mountain is hostile.
(b) The mountain begrudges any human infiltration.
(c) Man can be stronger than the mountain.
(d) The mountain is impersonal.

4. What time of day did Sacks awake from his feverish delirium?
(a) Evening.
(b) Late afternoon.
(c) Early morning.
(d) Near midnight.

5. What was the primary reason that Sacks and his friends celebrated the evening after his surgery?
(a) They were alive and together.
(b) Sacks had not died on the operating table.
(c) They were drunk and did not care what they celebrated.
(d) Sacks' recovery was expected to take two short months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would make the state of limbo tolerable?

2. How did Sacks's knee return to its full functionality?

3. What emotion did Sacks see several times on the unguarded face of the physiotherapist?

4. What is the most important reason for the young painter's misery?

5. Why did the staff nurse laugh at Sacks when he arrived in his room?

(see the answer key)

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