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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Acknowledgements.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Sacks's accident occur?
(a) On a mountain in Norway.
(b) In the hills of Germany.
(c) In the Swiss Alps.
(d) On a mountain in Finland.

2. What was the public reaction to Sacks's first article about his leg?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Indignation.
(c) Indifference.
(d) He does not say.

3. What book does Sacks plan to write in the future?
(a) A book about how this accident affected his medical practice.
(b) A book about how this accident affected his personal relationships in the long run.
(c) A book about his long-term recovery.
(d) A book about patients who experienced the same body-ego alienation that he did.

4. How long did it take Sacks to reach the final understanding of his various thoughts?
(a) Several years.
(b) Half a year.
(c) One year.
(d) Nearly a decade.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long did Sacks think about his injury before he began writing about it?

3. What analogy does Sacks refer to as he draws the relationship between science and art?

4. What did Sacks find astonishing about his wound?

5. When did Sacks write the preface to the book?

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