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

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

3. At what moment did Sacks's leg "return" to his body?
(a) When he had taken several steps.
(b) When he walked and felt sensation in it.
(c) When he heard Mendelssohn's music in his head.
(d) When he remembered the rhythm of hiking up the mountain.

4. Why could Head not explain the poetry of music and movement the way he felt it?
(a) He had a limited capacity for expressing himself to others.
(b) He could only explain the poetry in scientific terms.
(c) He did not feel music and movement very deeply.
(d) He was essentially a scientist.

5. What was the public reaction to Sacks's first article about his leg?
(a) Confusion.
(b) He does not say.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Indignation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What emotion did Sacks see several times on the unguarded face of the physiotherapist?

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

4. When the father and his son rescued Sacks, what had they been doing just a moment before?

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

(see the answer key)

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