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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 primary reason that Sacks and his friends celebrated the evening after his surgery?
(a) Sacks' recovery was expected to take two short months.
(b) Sacks had not died on the operating table.
(c) They were alive and together.
(d) They were drunk and did not care what they celebrated.

2. How long had Sacks been traveling when he came to the swollen stream?
(a) Four hours.
(b) Two hours.
(c) Half an hour.
(d) He did not know.

3. What instrument did Sacks have for listening to music?
(a) A record player.
(b) A clarinet.
(c) A small radio.
(d) An MP3 player.

4. What was Luria's response to Sacks's story?
(a) Fascinating but not completely useful to modern doctors.
(b) Such effects often happen but the stories are not told.
(c) Such effects rarely ever occur.
(d) Such effects are widely studied in the medical field.

5. The night after his surgery, what was the first of Sacks's nightmares?
(a) He was being trampled by a fish with hooves.
(b) He was running from the bull but could not move anywhere.
(c) His injured leg was made of marble and he could not lift it.
(d) He was again on the Mountain and his leg had lost all its nerves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What town's hospital was Sacks taken to first?

2. Sacks climbed a particular stretch of ground in just over an hour. How long did it take him to descend this same stretch?

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

4. Why did Sacks dedicate his book to Luria?

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

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