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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 occasion for this book?
(a) Reading a book about an unusual patient.
(b) An accident with peculiar effects.
(c) The study of an unusual patient.
(d) An accident with expected effects.

2. What quality of Limbo is inherent in scotoma?
(a) No physical placement in space.
(b) Absence.
(c) Timelessness.
(d) Loneliness.

3. Why did Sacks write to A. R. Luria?
(a) Luria was a close family friend.
(b) He was not getting satisfactory answers from his own doctor.
(c) Luria was the leading neuropsychologist in the United States.
(d) He wanted reassurance about writing his book.

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

5. How did Sacks descend the mountain?
(a) By crawling.
(b) By "rowing" with his arms.
(c) By hobbling on his right leg.
(d) By rolling and sliding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the primary reason that Sacks and his friends celebrated the evening after his surgery?

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. What was the name of the convalescent home where Sacks recovered?

4. What is the most important reason for the young painter's misery?

5. What was the date when Sacks climbed the mountain?

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