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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Sacks grateful to Dr. Henry Fleck?
(a) The doctor provided valuable support during therapy.
(b) The doctor first explained Sacks' body-ego alienation.
(c) The doctor performed electrical studies on Sack's damaged leg.
(d) The doctor's book was influential in Sacks' understanding of himself.

2. How does Sacks describe the six-hour ambulance ride to the next hospital?
(a) Like a dream.
(b) Like the embodiment of hope.
(c) Like death.
(d) Like resurrection.

3. What is the essential idea of Thomas Mann's quote?
(a) Man can be stronger than the mountain.
(b) The mountain begrudges any human infiltration.
(c) The mountain is impersonal.
(d) The mountain is hostile.

4. What was Sacks doing when he was finally able to piece together his thoughts?
(a) Riding a train from Boston to New York.
(b) Riding a train from Philadelphia to New York.
(c) Riding in a car from Annapolis to New York.
(d) Driving from Washington, D.C. to Boston.

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

6. What book does Sacks model his own book after?
(a) The Woman with the Shattered Dreams.
(b) The Man with the Shattered Arm.
(c) The Man in the Shattered Hope.
(d) The Man with the Shattered World.

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

8. What was Luria's response to Sacks's story?
(a) Such effects rarely ever occur.
(b) Fascinating but not completely useful to modern doctors.
(c) Such effects are widely studied in the medical field.
(d) Such effects often happen but the stories are not told.

9. How long did Sacks wait before villagers carried him to the hospital?
(a) Less than two hours.
(b) Half an hour.
(c) Less than four hours.
(d) Nearly six hours.

10. As Sacks notes at the beginning of the Acknowledgments, what has he done since his injury?
(a) Written two other books about medical phenomena.
(b) Strengthened his legs so he could hike again.
(c) Interviewed hundreds of similar patients.
(d) Investigated current neuropsychological practice.

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

12. Essentially, why could Sacks not tense up the quadriceps?
(a) His brain could not communicate with either leg.
(b) The muscle was completely wasted away.
(c) He had forgotten how.
(d) His tendon had not been fully reconnected.

13. In what publication did Sacks's first article about his injury appear?
(a) New York Times.
(b) Atlantic Monthly.
(c) New York Times Book Review.
(d) London Review of Books.

14. Who inspired and encouraged Sacks to finish his book?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His editors.
(c) His wife.
(d) His son.

15. What book of the Bible does Sacks quote at the beginning of Chapter Three?
(a) Job.
(b) Proverbs.
(c) Psalms.
(d) Ecclesiastes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Sacks so happy that he could do fifty chin-ups?

2. What language was the sign "BEWARE OF THE BULL!" written in?

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

4. Who came up with the phrase "quickening art" which described Sacks's use of music to move down the mountain?

5. Following the surgery, how did Sacks's cast fit his leg?

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