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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 main injury that Sacks was able to identify?
(a) The quadriceps was paralyzed.
(b) The leg was becoming horribly discolored.
(c) An artery was torn.
(d) His femur was broken.

2. What is the title of Chapter One?
(a) The Beginning.
(b) The Fall.
(c) The Mountain.
(d) The Bull.

3. How did Sacks meet the bull?
(a) He rounded a boulder and it was lying in the path.
(b) He came over a small rise and the bull was lying in the grass.
(c) The bull walked out of a stand of trees.
(d) The bull looked like a boulder until he got close to it.

4. What analogy does Sacks refer to as he draws the relationship between science and art?
(a) Archimedes' bathtub.
(b) Einstein's theory of relativity.
(c) Newton's apple.
(d) Galileo's earth.

5. What was the public reaction to Sacks's first article about his leg?
(a) Indignation.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Indifference.
(d) He does not say.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Sacks always liked to think of himself?

2. How long did Sacks think about his injury before he began writing about it?

3. What quality of Limbo is inherent in scotoma?

4. What was the primary reason that Sacks and his friends celebrated the evening after his surgery?

5. What would make the state of limbo tolerable?

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