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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 was the main injury that Sacks was able to identify?
(a) The quadriceps was paralyzed.
(b) An artery was torn.
(c) The leg was becoming horribly discolored.
(d) His femur was broken.

2. Why did Sacks refer to the doctor's visits as "odious" (Chapter Six, pg 159)?
(a) The doctor was unusually harsh with him.
(b) He had to play the part of the accepting, passive patient.
(c) He did not trust or like the doctor.
(d) He preferred to be the doctor as the patient.

3. The night after his surgery, what was the first of Sacks's nightmares?
(a) His injured leg was made of marble and he could not lift it.
(b) He was being trampled by a fish with hooves.
(c) He was running from the bull but could not move anywhere.
(d) He was again on the Mountain and his leg had lost all its nerves.

4. Who wrote the book which was the model for Sacks's own book?
(a) Conrad.
(b) Luria.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Hemingway.

5. After a temporary cast was put on the leg, what dream did Sacks have?
(a) The leg was being squeezed in a vice.
(b) The leg was made of bricks and mortar.
(c) The leg was covered with a layer of steel.
(d) The leg was made of cloud vapor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days did Sacks spend in limbo?

2. In the hospital gardens, what set patients off from non-patients?

3. What did Sacks think when he woke from the surgery?

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

5. What did Sacks feel as he was being admitted to the hospital?

(see the answer key)

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