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

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

3. When Sacks began to write to Luria, where did Luria live?
(a) Oslo.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Madrid.

4. Where did Sacks finish writing his book?
(a) On a mountain in Costa Rica.
(b) In a meadow in New Yor.
(c) On a mountain in Nicaragua.
(d) In a village in Norway.

5. When was Studies in Neurology published?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Sacks doing when he was finally able to piece together his thoughts?

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

3. What book does Sacks model his own book after?

4. Where did Sacks's accident occur?

5. Why did Sacks dedicate his book to Luria?

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