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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 analogy does Sacks refer to as he draws the relationship between science and art?
(a) Galileo's earth.
(b) Archimedes' bathtub.
(c) Newton's apple.
(d) Einstein's theory of relativity.

2. How old was Sacks when he discovered the beauty of the world through the Pythagorean theorem?
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Eight.
(c) Five.
(d) Twelve.

3. While waiting for villagers to arrive and take him to the hospital, how did Sacks feel?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Worried about the doctor's prognosis.
(c) Thrilled to be alive.
(d) Comfortable and happy.

4. In Montaigne's words, who is a true doctor?
(a) The man who also understands art.
(b) The man who can sympathize with his patients.
(c) The man who has experienced every illness he wants to cure.
(d) The man who sees his patients as people rather than as problems.

5. What other word is connoted by the word "hell"?
(a) Helplessness.
(b) Help.
(c) Hellish.
(d) Hole.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, in Sacks's family, had worked closely with Head?

2. According to Kant, how does a man stand in relation to the world?

3. What instrument did Sacks have for listening to music?

4. When did Sacks suffer his second fall?

5. When Sacks talks about the hole in memory and identity, what is he referring to (Afterword, pg 200)?

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