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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Sacks when he discovered the beauty of the world through the Pythagorean theorem?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Five.
(c) Eight.
(d) Twenty-one.

2. How does Sacks describe the six-hour ambulance ride to the next hospital?
(a) Like death.
(b) Like a dream.
(c) Like resurrection.
(d) Like the embodiment of hope.

3. What was the primary reason that Sacks and his friends celebrated the evening after his surgery?
(a) Sacks had not died on the operating table.
(b) They were alive and together.
(c) Sacks' recovery was expected to take two short months.
(d) They were drunk and did not care what they celebrated.

4. Who wrote the book which was the model for Sacks's own book?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Luria.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Nietzsche.

5. What was the name of the surgeon who performed Sacks's knee surgery?
(a) Sparrow.
(b) Swan.
(c) Goose.
(d) Sleeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Following the surgery, how did Sacks's cast fit his leg?

2. When Sacks began to write to Luria, where did Luria live?

3. Sacks did not attend the memorial service for W. H. Auden because he thought he was too weak to travel. Where was this service held?

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

5. What reason did Sacks give for hating any creature with health?

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