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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 and Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Five, Sacks quotes poetry to explain the importance of music: "You are the music/ While the music lasts." Who wrote these lines?
(a) Eliot.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) St. John of the Cross.
(d) Kant.

2. What instrument did Sacks have for listening to music?
(a) A record player.
(b) A small radio.
(c) A clarinet.
(d) An MP3 player.

3. What was the occasion for this book?
(a) An accident with expected effects.
(b) The study of an unusual patient.
(c) An accident with peculiar effects.
(d) Reading a book about an unusual patient.

4. How is the material in the last chapter presented?
(a) Randomly.
(b) Concisely.
(c) Systematically.
(d) Poetically.

5. What reason did Sacks give for hating any creature with health?
(a) The healthy creatures could not understand him.
(b) It was the sickness speaking.
(c) After everything he went through, he deserved it.
(d) It was one step along the road to recovery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to Sacks's writing style when he was forced to write with his left hand?

3. What did Sacks think about as he moved down the mountain?

4. What language was the sign "BEWARE OF THE BULL!" written in?

5. What vital change in the world happened once Sacks moved out of his first hospital room?

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