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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time of day did Sacks awake from his feverish delirium?
(a) Early morning.
(b) Near midnight.
(c) Evening.
(d) Late afternoon.

2. In Chapter Five, Sacks quotes poetry to explain the importance of music: "You are the music/ While the music lasts." Who wrote these lines?
(a) Eliot.
(b) Kant.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) St. John of the Cross.

3. Why did the staff nurse laugh at Sacks when he arrived in his room?
(a) Because he had difficulty walking.
(b) Because he had packed fifty books and almost no clothes.
(c) Because he told her a bawdy joke.
(d) Because he was joking about his cast.

4. How long did it take Sacks to reach the final understanding of his various thoughts?
(a) Half a year.
(b) Nearly a decade.
(c) One year.
(d) Several years.

5. Once the cast was removed, Sacks gingerly touched his leg. How did it feel?
(a) Like pudding.
(b) Like marble.
(c) Like wax.
(d) Like flesh.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What analogy does Sacks refer to as he draws the relationship between science and art?

3. Where did Sacks's accident occur?

4. What did not occur to Sacks until he injured his leg?

5. According to Sacks, why does he not end his story after his rescue?

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