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

2. Whom does Sacks quote to illustrate his need for patient waiting?
(a) St. Christopher.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Conrad.

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

4. What name did Sacks give his windowless hospital room?
(a) Little Ease.
(b) The Monad.
(c) Big Ease.
(d) The Tower.

5. What was the occasion for this book?
(a) An accident with expected effects.
(b) The study of an unusual patient.
(c) An accident with peculiar effects.
(d) Reading a book about an unusual patient.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sacks think about as he moved down the mountain?

2. In the quote about patient waiting, why must the person not think?

3. As noted at the end of Chapter Three, what did Sacks begin to do?

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

5. What analogy does Sacks use to describe his left leg's failure during therapy?

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