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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the phrase "uneventful recovery" misleading?
(a) Recovery is actually a series of events.
(b) The phrase implies a peaceful recovery, which is never possible.
(c) Recovery is the greatest event of the patient's life.
(d) Recovery has no relationship to events.

2. When Sacks gave thanks for his health and recovery, what was most important about that action?
(a) The amount of thankfulness he actually felt.
(b) The deity to whom he addressed his thanks.
(c) The words he used to express his thoughts.
(d) The feeling of humility and gratefulness.

3. In the quote about patient waiting, why must the person not think?
(a) He must combine love and thought.
(b) He must combine hope and thought.
(c) He is not ready for thought.
(d) He is not strong enough for thought.

4. Why did Sacks sit looking out the window for hours on end?
(a) He was tired of his hospital room.
(b) He was realizing how cut off from life he was.
(c) He was eager to see other people.
(d) He was starved to look at anything green.

5. As Sacks notes at the beginning of the Acknowledgments, what has he done since his injury?
(a) Interviewed hundreds of similar patients.
(b) Investigated current neuropsychological practice.
(c) Written two other books about medical phenomena.
(d) Strengthened his legs so he could hike again.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the father and his son rescued Sacks, what had they been doing just a moment before?

2. What did Sacks think about as he moved down the mountain?

3. Why was Sacks grateful to Dr. Henry Fleck?

4. When Nurse Solveig returned to take out Sacks's thermometer, what emotion did she convey?

5. When moving out of his tiny hospital room, why did Sacks see the world as two-dimensional?

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