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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the essential idea of Thomas Mann's quote?
(a) The mountain begrudges any human infiltration.
(b) The mountain is hostile.
(c) The mountain is impersonal.
(d) Man can be stronger than the mountain.

2. To what poor instrument did Sacks compare his injured leg?
(a) The dented clarinet he had as a child.
(b) The smashed violin he had as a child.
(c) The broken saxophone he had kept since childhood.
(d) The cracked cello in his living room.

3. What analogy does Sacks refer to as he draws the relationship between science and art?
(a) Newton's apple.
(b) Galileo's earth.
(c) Einstein's theory of relativity.
(d) Archimedes' bathtub.

4. What role did Mary-Kay Wilmers play in Sacks's recovery?
(a) She nursed him in the hospital after his surgery.
(b) She nursed him in the convalescent home.
(c) She served as the impetus for his philosophical musings about his injury.
(d) She suggested and edited his article entitled "The Leg."

5. How old was Sacks when he discovered the beauty of the world through the Pythagorean theorem?
(a) Five.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Eight.
(d) Twenty-one.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Sacks begin writing to Luria?

2. Where did Sacks's accident occur?

3. What word does Luria use to describe the modern approach to peripheral disorders?

4. Why did Sacks have strong legs?

5. What was the occasion for this book?

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