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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Since his accident, what has Sacks been aware of?
(a) The wonder and horror which are an everyday part of life.
(b) The shallowness of human experience.
(c) The wonder and horror which lie just behind life.
(d) The shallowness of everyday life.

2. What is the essential idea of Thomas Mann's quote?
(a) The mountain begrudges any human infiltration.
(b) Man can be stronger than the mountain.
(c) The mountain is hostile.
(d) The mountain is impersonal.

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

4. What would happen if Sacks were not found by nightfall?
(a) The bull would trample him to death.
(b) He would most likely go crazy.
(c) He would freeze to death.
(d) He would die of blood loss.

5. What analogy does Sacks refer to as he draws the relationship between science and art?
(a) Archimedes' bathtub.
(b) Einstein's theory of relativity.
(c) Galileo's earth.
(d) Newton's apple.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sacks splint his leg?

2. 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)?

3. What book does Sacks plan to write in the future?

4. What did Sacks think about as he moved down the mountain?

5. When Sacks began to write to Luria, where did Luria live?

(see the answer key)

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