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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sacks experience with the father and son, which he had not experienced all day?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Anger.
(c) Inhibitions.
(d) Fear.

2. What was the occasion for this book?
(a) The study of an unusual patient.
(b) Reading a book about an unusual patient.
(c) An accident with expected effects.
(d) An accident with peculiar effects.

3. What did Sacks find astonishing about his wound?
(a) The long recovery time.
(b) The complexity of effects he experienced during recovery.
(c) The pain he felt during his whole recovery.
(d) The inability of his doctors to understand him.

4. According to Sacks, why does he not end his story after his rescue?
(a) The book was not long enough to stop.
(b) The accident is closely connected to the story of recovery.
(c) He had so many ideas left to convey.
(d) The focus of the book is the recovery, not the accident.

5. When the father and his son rescued Sacks, what had they been doing just a moment before?
(a) Searching for him.
(b) Listening to the mass wafting up from the church.
(c) Hunting reindeer.
(d) Sleeping.

6. What analogy does Sacks use to describe his left leg's failure during therapy?
(a) A car with an empty gas tank.
(b) A flat pasture with lazy cows.
(c) A cliff with an impossibly smooth face.
(d) A city with deserted streets.

7. What name did Sacks give his windowless hospital room?
(a) The Monad.
(b) The Tower.
(c) Little Ease.
(d) Big Ease.

8. When was Studies in Neurology published?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1930.

9. Where did Sacks's accident occur?
(a) In the hills of Germany.
(b) In the Swiss Alps.
(c) On a mountain in Finland.
(d) On a mountain in Norway.

10. What does the word scotoma mean?
(a) Emptiness and images of emptiness.
(b) Being utterly alone in the world.
(c) Darkness of soul.
(d) The depression following surgery.

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

12. What was the name of the surgeon who performed Sacks's knee surgery?
(a) Swan.
(b) Sleeks.
(c) Goose.
(d) Sparrow.

13. How did Sacks splint his leg?
(a) With his right leg.
(b) With his umbrella.
(c) With a stick he found on the ground.
(d) With his walking stick.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Sacks think about his injury before he began writing about it?

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

3. Why was Sacks grateful to Dr. Henry Fleck?

4. How did Sacks descend the mountain?

5. How has Sacks written the book A Leg to Stand On?

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