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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3, 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question did Sacks want to ask the surgeon before surgery?
(a) Whether he could drink a little water first.
(b) Whether he could have a spinal anesthesia.
(c) Whether he could have a general anesthesia.
(d) Whether he could have someone photograph the surgery.

2. What would happen if Sacks were not found by nightfall?
(a) He would freeze to death.
(b) The bull would trample him to death.
(c) He would die of blood loss.
(d) He would most likely go crazy.

3. Who wrote the book which was the model for Sacks's own book?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Luria.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Nietzsche.

4. In Chapter Five, Sacks quotes poetry to explain the importance of music: "You are the music/ While the music lasts." Who wrote these lines?
(a) Eliot.
(b) Kant.
(c) St. John of the Cross.
(d) Nietzsche.

5. What did Sacks find astonishing about his wound?
(a) The pain he felt during his whole recovery.
(b) The long recovery time.
(c) The inability of his doctors to understand him.
(d) The complexity of effects he experienced during recovery.

Short Answer Questions

1. The night before the operation, Sacks called up his family and friends. What did he tell them could happen if he were to die during the operation?

2. How old was Sacks when he discovered the beauty of the world through the Pythagorean theorem?

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

4. What was the main injury that Sacks was able to identify?

5. Who came up with the phrase "quickening art" which described Sacks's use of music to move down the mountain?

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