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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sacks find astonishing about his wound?
(a) The long recovery time.
(b) The pain he felt during his whole recovery.
(c) The complexity of effects he experienced during recovery.
(d) The inability of his doctors to understand him.

2. According to Sacks, why does he not end his story after his rescue?
(a) He had so many ideas left to convey.
(b) The accident is closely connected to the story of recovery.
(c) The book was not long enough to stop.
(d) The focus of the book is the recovery, not the accident.

3. In order to escape being caught on the mountain all night, what was the latest possible time Sacks could reach help?
(a) Ten o'clock PM.
(b) Eight o'clock PM.
(c) Nine o'clock PM.
(d) Six o'clock PM.

4. To what did Sacks's various thoughts and themes eventually lead in the end?
(a) A personal, religious faith.
(b) A critique of modern neurological medicine.
(c) A reaffirmation of modern neurological medicin.
(d) A deeper understanding of the patient-doctor relationship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Essentially, why could Sacks not tense up the quadriceps?

2. What did Sacks feel as he was being admitted to the hospital?

3. How long did Sacks wait before villagers carried him to the hospital?

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

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

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