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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the convalescent home where Sacks recovered?
(a) Because his frame of reference has also shrunk.
(b) Because his mental faculties are not engaged in the world around him.
(c) Because, if he has strong familial support, the world's shrinking does not matter.
(d) Because he is caught up in the intricacies of his disease.

2. While in limbo, what feeling did Sacks have to allow, which he first found humiliating?
(a) Activity.
(b) Inerrancy.
(c) Passivity.
(d) Inadequacy.

3. Essentially, why could Sacks not tense up the quadriceps?
(a) His tendon had not been fully reconnected.
(b) He had forgotten how.
(c) The muscle was completely wasted away.
(d) His brain could not communicate with either leg.

4. Why was Sacks sent to a convalescent home before going home?
(a) He could not bear the idea of reentering the world.
(b) Patients had to be reacclimated to the world.
(c) His family did not think he was ready to come home.
(d) He was not strong enough to go home.

5. In the quote about patient waiting, why must the person not think?
(a) He is not strong enough for thought.
(b) He is not ready for thought.
(c) He must combine love and thought.
(d) He must combine hope and thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sacks descend the mountain?

2. Where did Sacks finish writing his book?

3. Since his accident, what has Sacks been aware of?

4. To what did Sacks's various thoughts and themes eventually lead in the end?

5. What did Sacks experience with the father and son, which he had not experienced all day?

(see the answer key)

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