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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 order to escape being caught on the mountain all night, what was the latest possible time Sacks could reach help?
(a) Eight o'clock PM.
(b) Ten o'clock PM.
(c) Nine o'clock PM.
(d) Six o'clock PM.

2. How has Sacks always liked to think of himself?
(a) As a humanitarian.
(b) As an explorer.
(c) As a risk-taker.
(d) As an inventor.

3. What does Sacks think of when he remembers the Biblical words, "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time or die; a time . . ." (pg 26)?
(a) The futility of life.
(b) His wife's untimely death.
(c) His patients who were prepared for death.
(d) The waste of good health and energy.

4. What word does Luria use to describe the modern approach to peripheral disorders?
(a) Ill-advised.
(b) Veterinary.
(c) Empathetic.
(d) Uninformed.

5. What would happen if Sacks were not found by nightfall?
(a) The bull would trample him to death.
(b) He would die of blood loss.
(c) He would most likely go crazy.
(d) He would freeze to death.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did Sacks walk the day after his second surgery?

2. Sacks was excited about buying books written by a man named Head. What was the author's first name?

3. What vital support did the surgeon take away when he dismissed Sacks's concerns?

4. When Nurse Solveig returned to take out Sacks's thermometer, what emotion did she convey?

5. Sacks climbed a particular stretch of ground in just over an hour. How long did it take him to descend this same stretch?

(see the answer key)

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