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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the plane captain, what is the first lesson a patient must learn?
(a) Hopefulness.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Patience.
(d) Peace.

2. What town's hospital was Sacks taken to first?
(a) Odda's.
(b) London's.
(c) Bergen's.
(d) Oslo's.

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

4. When riding to the hospital where he would be operated on, Sacks felt dread. How was this different from the dread he had felt on the mountain?
(a) This dread was less human and more animalistic.
(b) This dread was deeper than the first.
(c) This dread was fear of man rather than fear of natural consequences.
(d) This dread was distorted and nameless.

5. What time of day did Sacks awake from his feverish delirium?
(a) Near midnight.
(b) Late afternoon.
(c) Evening.
(d) Early morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name did Sacks give his windowless hospital room?

2. What would happen if Sacks were not found by nightfall?

3. What other word is connoted by the word "hell"?

4. How does Sacks describe the six-hour ambulance ride to the next hospital?

5. What was the primary reason that Sacks and his friends celebrated the evening after his surgery?

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