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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 was the date when Sacks climbed the mountain?
(a) The 7th.
(b) The 24th.
(c) The 23rd.
(d) The 18th.

2. According to Sacks, why does he not end his story after his rescue?
(a) The focus of the book is the recovery, not the accident.
(b) The book was not long enough to stop.
(c) The accident is closely connected to the story of recovery.
(d) He had so many ideas left to convey.

3. How did one of the surgical registrars refer to being a patient?
(a) As a long trek into the light.
(b) As an opportunity.
(c) As a test of patience.
(d) As a pilgrimage.

4. What did Sacks find astonishing about his wound?
(a) The complexity of effects he experienced during recovery.
(b) The long recovery time.
(c) The inability of his doctors to understand him.
(d) The pain he felt during his whole recovery.

5. Why did Sacks have strong legs?
(a) He ran marathons.
(b) He had worked out at the gym for many years.
(c) He swam regularly.
(d) He was a veteran hiker.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In order to escape being caught on the mountain all night, what was the latest possible time Sacks could reach help?

4. When Nurse Solveig returned to take out Sacks's thermometer, what emotion did she convey?

5. Essentially, why could Sacks not tense up the quadriceps?

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