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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has written about the "occasions of poetry" (pg 9)?
(a) Thomas Gunn.
(b) T. S. Eliot.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Admiral Nelson.

2. How does Sacks describe the six-hour ambulance ride to the next hospital?
(a) Like resurrection.
(b) Like death.
(c) Like the embodiment of hope.
(d) Like a dream.

3. What is the most important reason for the young painter's misery?
(a) He knew he was dying and could not accept it.
(b) He was impatient for the moment of death.
(c) He could not hide his wish for death.
(d) He could not hide his worsening illness.

4. Why did the staff nurse laugh at Sacks when he arrived in his room?
(a) Because he had packed fifty books and almost no clothes.
(b) Because he was joking about his cast.
(c) Because he had difficulty walking.
(d) Because he told her a bawdy joke.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the set times and limits at the convalescent home important?

2. Who came up with the phrase "quickening art" which described Sacks's use of music to move down the mountain?

3. During his recovery, what did Sacks decide was the most important thing of all?

4. Who wrote the book which was the model for Sacks's own book?

5. What is the title of Chapter One?

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