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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Sacks's accident occur?
(a) In the Swiss Alps.
(b) On a mountain in Finland.
(c) On a mountain in Norway.
(d) In the hills of Germany.

2. How had Sacks tried to revive his left leg?
(a) By praying it into being.
(b) By thinking it into being.
(c) By intense therapy.
(d) By wishing it into being.

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 looked like a boulder until he got close to it.
(d) The bull walked out of a stand of trees.

4. Once the cast was removed, Sacks gingerly touched his leg. How did it feel?
(a) Like wax.
(b) Like pudding.
(c) Like marble.
(d) Like flesh.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sacks references a chapter in Luria's book The Man with a Shattered World that profoundly affected his thoughts about recovery. What was the name of this chapter?

2. Why was it so difficult for Sacks to take the first step?

3. What does Sacks think of when he remembers the Biblical words, "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time or die; a time . . ." (pg 26)?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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