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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 analogy does Sacks use to describe his left leg's failure during therapy?
(a) A car with an empty gas tank.
(b) A cliff with an impossibly smooth face.
(c) A city with deserted streets.
(d) A flat pasture with lazy cows.

2. What concerto did Sacks listen to on a cassette tape?
(a) Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B Minor.
(b) Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major.
(c) Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.
(d) Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5.

3. Before he took a step, what visual problem did Sacks have?
(a) He could not judge objects or distances.
(b) The floor looked closer than it actually was.
(c) He could not see his feet.
(d) He could not distinguish colors.

4. 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)?
(a) The futility of life.
(b) His wife's untimely death.
(c) His patients who were prepared for death.
(d) The waste of good health and energy.

5. The night after his surgery, what was the first of Sacks's nightmares?
(a) He was running from the bull but could not move anywhere.
(b) His injured leg was made of marble and he could not lift it.
(c) He was again on the Mountain and his leg had lost all its nerves.
(d) He was being trampled by a fish with hooves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name did Sacks give his windowless hospital room?

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

3. What book does Sacks plan to write in the future?

4. What was the name of the physiotherapist?

5. After he fell, what story did Sacks recall the villagers telling him?

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