View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3, 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Sacks returned to his room, what was the weather like?
(a) Dark and stormy.
(b) Chilly and wet.
(c) Sunny and warm.
(d) Lightly snowing.

2. What was scheduled for Wednesday the 11th?
(a) Therapy would become quite intense.
(b) The temporary leg cast would be removed.
(c) Sacks would get out of bed and walk.
(d) Sacks would move from the hospital to the convalescent home.

3. What book of the Bible does Sacks quote at the beginning of Chapter Three?
(a) Psalms.
(b) Proverbs.
(c) Ecclesiastes.
(d) Job.

4. Before Sacks's cast was taken off, what did he dream that it was filled with?
(a) Air or rotting bones.
(b) Joy and concerto music.
(c) Someone else's leg.
(d) A lacerated leg.

5. Since his accident, what has Sacks been aware of?
(a) The shallowness of everyday life.
(b) The shallowness of human experience.
(c) The wonder and horror which lie just behind life.
(d) The wonder and horror which are an everyday part of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Luria's response to Sacks's story?

2. What was the main injury that Sacks was able to identify?

3. At the beginning of Chapter Four, what is the essence of William Harvey's questions?

4. What advantage did the mystics and metaphysical poets offer?

5. Who wrote the book which was the model for Sacks's own book?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 303 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample