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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Luria's response to Sacks's story?
(a) Such effects often happen but the stories are not told.
(b) Fascinating but not completely useful to modern doctors.
(c) Such effects are widely studied in the medical field.
(d) Such effects rarely ever occur.

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

3. When did Sacks write the preface to the book?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1991.

4. What book does Sacks model his own book after?
(a) The Woman with the Shattered Dreams.
(b) The Man with the Shattered Arm.
(c) The Man in the Shattered Hope.
(d) The Man with the Shattered World.

5. In what publication did Sacks's first article about his injury appear?
(a) London Review of Books.
(b) Atlantic Monthly.
(c) New York Times.
(d) New York Times Book Review.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sacks find astonishing about his wound?

2. Who has written about the "occasions of poetry" (pg 9)?

3. What was the occasion for this book?

4. When did Sacks begin writing to Luria?

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

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