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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What escapade did Sacks try to pull during his last night in the hospital?
(a) Climbing a ladder to the roof.
(b) Walking around the grounds unattended.
(c) Walking the edge of his second-story balcony.
(d) Asking the night nurse out for a drink.

2. The night before the operation, Sacks called up his family and friends. What did he tell them could happen if he were to die during the operation?
(a) His property should be auctioned off.
(b) His valuable property should be donated to charity.
(c) They could publish anything from his notebooks that they saw fit.
(d) His property should be divided fairly among his family.

3. What is the essential idea of Thomas Mann's quote?
(a) The mountain begrudges any human infiltration.
(b) Man can be stronger than the mountain.
(c) The mountain is impersonal.
(d) The mountain is hostile.

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

5. After he fell, what story did Sacks recall the villagers telling him?
(a) A Pole had been gored by the bull and bled to death.
(b) A Scotsman had died on exposure on the mountain exactly one year previously.
(c) An Englishman had broken both legs on the mountain earlier, though he survived.
(d) An Englishman had died on the mountain two weeks earlier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sacks hope to see when he reached the mountain's summit?

2. Where did Sacks's accident occur?

3. Why was it difficult for Sacks to proceed through the land of limbo?

4. What time of day did Sacks awake from his feverish delirium?

5. As the Sister took the stitches out of Sacks's leg, what did he think?

(see the answer key)

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