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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the date when Sacks climbed the mountain?
(a) The 18th.
(b) The 23rd.
(c) The 24th.
(d) The 7th.

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

3. What was the name of the convalescent home where Sacks recovered?
(a) Hampstead Heath.
(b) Kenmoore.
(c) Kenwood.
(d) Hampstead.

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

5. What was Luria's response to Sacks's story?
(a) Such effects are widely studied in the medical field.
(b) Such effects often happen but the stories are not told.
(c) Such effects rarely ever occur.
(d) Fascinating but not completely useful to modern doctors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sacks's accident occur?

2. As Sacks returned to his room, what was the weather like?

3. Sacks references a chapter in Luria's book The Man with a Shattered World that profoundly affected his thoughts about recovery. What was the name of this chapter?

4. What was the first exercise that Sacks tried to do with the physiotherapist?

5. What other word is connoted by the word "hell"?

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