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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. If an outsider were to observe the patients at the convalescent home, what would he have seen?
(a) Depth and secrecy.
(b) Darkness and secrecy.
(c) Lightheartedness and frivolity.
(d) Artificial friendships.

3. What reason did Sacks give for hating any creature with health?
(a) It was the sickness speaking.
(b) It was one step along the road to recovery.
(c) The healthy creatures could not understand him.
(d) After everything he went through, he deserved it.

4. What vital support did the surgeon take away when he dismissed Sacks's concerns?
(a) Empathy.
(b) A listening ear.
(c) Human support.
(d) Professional support.

5. How did Sacks meet the bull?
(a) The bull looked like a boulder until he got close to it.
(b) He came over a small rise and the bull was lying in the grass.
(c) The bull walked out of a stand of trees.
(d) He rounded a boulder and it was lying in the path.

Short Answer Questions

1. On one particular September morning, why did Sacks deeply enjoy lighting his pipe?

2. What does Sacks think of when he remembers the Biblical words, "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time or die; a time . . ." (pg 26)?

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

4. What book of the Bible does Sacks quote at the beginning of Chapter Three?

5. When moving out of his tiny hospital room, why did Sacks see the world as two-dimensional?

(see the answer key)

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