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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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)?
(a) The waste of good health and energy.
(b) The futility of life.
(c) His wife's untimely death.
(d) His patients who were prepared for death.

3. What book does Sacks model his own book after?
(a) The Man in the Shattered Hope.
(b) The Woman with the Shattered Dreams.
(c) The Man with the Shattered Arm.
(d) The Man with the Shattered World.

4. Who came up with the phrase "quickening art" which described Sacks's use of music to move down the mountain?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Pavlov.
(c) Kant.
(d) Harvey.

5. What does the word scotoma mean?
(a) Darkness of soul.
(b) The depression following surgery.
(c) Being utterly alone in the world.
(d) Emptiness and images of emptiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language was the sign "BEWARE OF THE BULL!" written in?

2. Why did the staff nurse laugh at Sacks when he arrived in his room?

3. Who inspired and encouraged Sacks to finish his book?

4. What book of the Bible does Sacks quote at the beginning of Chapter Three?

5. Why was Sacks so happy that he could do fifty chin-ups?

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