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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Sacks think about as he moved down the mountain?
(a) The most heart-wrenching moments of his life.
(b) His father's vegetable garden.
(c) What little time he had left to live.
(d) Happy memories and times.

3. Why was Sacks grateful to Dr. Henry Fleck?
(a) The doctor performed electrical studies on Sack's damaged leg.
(b) The doctor's book was influential in Sacks' understanding of himself.
(c) The doctor first explained Sacks' body-ego alienation.
(d) The doctor provided valuable support during therapy.

4. What word does Sacks use most to describe the bull?
(a) Vicious.
(b) Strong.
(c) Angry.
(d) Hideous.

5. What does Sacks think of when he remembers the Biblical words, "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time or die; a time . . ." (pg 26)?
(a) His wife's untimely death.
(b) The futility of life.
(c) His patients who were prepared for death.
(d) The waste of good health and energy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sacks splint his leg?

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

3. Why did Sacks write to A. R. Luria?

4. After he fell, what story did Sacks recall the villagers telling him?

5. What did Sacks find astonishing about his wound?

(see the answer key)

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