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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What would make the state of limbo tolerable?
(a) The ability to communicate with others.
(b) The knowledge of an end to this state.
(c) The ability to examine one's own thoughts.
(d) The concern of a fellow person in limbo.

3. Sacks climbed a particular stretch of ground in just over an hour. How long did it take him to descend this same stretch?
(a) Half an hour.
(b) Three hours.
(c) Nearly seven hours.
(d) Two hours.

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

5. After realizing that he was the victim of the fall, what did Sacks do?
(a) Looked at the leg as though he did not recognize it.
(b) Gave himself a pep talk in an attempt to begin moving.
(c) Lay down and tried to think what he should do.
(d) Examined the injured leg as though he were explaining it to a class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Luria use to describe the modern approach to peripheral disorders?

2. How did Sacks meet the bull?

3. What did Sacks hope to see when he reached the mountain's summit?

4. What does the word scotoma mean?

5. What was the first exercise that Sacks tried to do with the physiotherapist?

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