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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sacks experience with the father and son, which he had not experienced all day?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Anger.
(c) Inhibitions.
(d) Fear.

2. As the Sister took the stitches out of Sacks's leg, what did he think?
(a) That she was fiddling around.
(b) That she was not being gentle.
(c) That he could not wait to go hiking again.
(d) That she was being gentle but the procedure still hurt.

3. Before Sacks's cast was taken off, what did he dream that it was filled with?
(a) A lacerated leg.
(b) Air or rotting bones.
(c) Joy and concerto music.
(d) Someone else's leg.

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

5. How long did Sacks wait before villagers carried him to the hospital?
(a) Less than two hours.
(b) Less than four hours.
(c) Nearly six hours.
(d) Half an hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the essential idea of Thomas Mann's quote?

2. On one particular September morning, why did Sacks deeply enjoy lighting his pipe?

3. How did Sacks meet the bull?

4. Why is the phrase "uneventful recovery" misleading?

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

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