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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During his first visit home, what type of religious ceremony did Sacks attend with his family?
(a) Protestant.
(b) New Age.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Jewish.

2. How had Sacks tried to revive his left leg?
(a) By wishing it into being.
(b) By intense therapy.
(c) By thinking it into being.
(d) By praying it into being.

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

4. How did Sacks splint his leg?
(a) With his umbrella.
(b) With his walking stick.
(c) With his right leg.
(d) With a stick he found on the ground.

5. What does the word scotoma mean?
(a) Emptiness and images of emptiness.
(b) Darkness of soul.
(c) Being utterly alone in the world.
(d) The depression following surgery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sacks describe the six-hour ambulance ride to the next hospital?

2. Why was Sacks so happy that he could do fifty chin-ups?

3. What time did Sacks hope to reach the mountain's summit?

4. In order to escape being caught on the mountain all night, what was the latest possible time Sacks could reach help?

5. What was the date when Sacks climbed the mountain?

(see the answer key)

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