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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the convalescent home, what did Sacks's first breakfast partner find amusing?
(a) The irony of their respective leg injuries.
(b) Everything about the world.
(c) The jokes of the serving nurses.
(d) Sacks' situation.

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

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

5. How does Sacks describe the six-hour ambulance ride to the next hospital?
(a) Like the embodiment of hope.
(b) Like a dream.
(c) Like resurrection.
(d) Like death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shortly after the sun set, what extraordinary auditory experience did Sacks have?

2. How did Sacks descend the mountain?

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

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

5. What instrument did Sacks have for listening to music?

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