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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what did Sacks's various thoughts and themes eventually lead in the end?
(a) A personal, religious faith.
(b) A deeper understanding of the patient-doctor relationship.
(c) A critique of modern neurological medicine.
(d) A reaffirmation of modern neurological medicin.

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

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

4. What was the primary reason that Sacks and his friends celebrated the evening after his surgery?
(a) They were alive and together.
(b) Sacks' recovery was expected to take two short months.
(c) Sacks had not died on the operating table.
(d) They were drunk and did not care what they celebrated.

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

6. What question did Sacks want to ask the surgeon before surgery?
(a) Whether he could have a spinal anesthesia.
(b) Whether he could have a general anesthesia.
(c) Whether he could have someone photograph the surgery.
(d) Whether he could drink a little water first.

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

8. How did Sacks descend the mountain?
(a) By "rowing" with his arms.
(b) By hobbling on his right leg.
(c) By rolling and sliding.
(d) By crawling.

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

10. What role did Mary-Kay Wilmers play in Sacks's recovery?
(a) She nursed him in the convalescent home.
(b) She nursed him in the hospital after his surgery.
(c) She suggested and edited his article entitled "The Leg."
(d) She served as the impetus for his philosophical musings about his injury.

11. 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.

12. When did Sacks begin writing to Luria?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1973.

13. What did Sacks think about as he moved down the mountain?
(a) The most heart-wrenching moments of his life.
(b) What little time he had left to live.
(c) Happy memories and times.
(d) His father's vegetable garden.

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

15. What emotion did Sacks see several times on the unguarded face of the physiotherapist?
(a) Pain.
(b) Disgust.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Revulsion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What would make the state of limbo tolerable?

3. When riding to the hospital where he would be operated on, Sacks felt dread. How was this different from the dread he had felt on the mountain?

4. Where did Sacks's accident occur?

5. According to Sacks, why does he not end his story after his rescue?

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