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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. Why were the set times and limits at the convalescent home important?
(a) They kept the patients from drifting into chaos or passivity.
(b) They kept the patients from getting into mischief.
(c) They showed the patients who held the power.
(d) They kept the patients from reconnecting to the world too early.

2. What town's hospital was Sacks taken to first?
(a) Oslo's.
(b) London's.
(c) Odda's.
(d) Bergen's.

3. What was the oddest thing that happened while Sacks's shoulder and arm were in a cast?
(a) They gave him constant pain.
(b) Their nerve endings no longer responded to stimuli.
(c) He forgot that he had ever had them.
(d) He could no longer feel their presence.

4. Why did Sacks find beauty as well as fear in darkness?
(a) There was hope for an end.
(b) There was hope for a new light.
(c) The darkness was guided by God.
(d) The darkness was part of human experience.

5. When Nurse Solveig returned to take out Sacks's thermometer, what emotion did she convey?
(a) Pity.
(b) Rage.
(c) Disinterest.
(d) Concern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book which was the model for Sacks's own book?

2. What important concept did Sacks find in Kant's writing?

3. What two sounds was Sacks caught between?

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

5. What is the essential idea of Thomas Mann's quote?

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