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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before Sacks's cast was taken off, what did he dream that it was filled with?
(a) A lacerated leg.
(b) Air or rotting bones.
(c) Someone else's leg.
(d) Joy and concerto music.

2. Once the cast was removed, Sacks gingerly touched his leg. How did it feel?
(a) Like pudding.
(b) Like wax.
(c) Like flesh.
(d) Like marble.

3. What advantage did the mystics and metaphysical poets offer?
(a) Deep expressions of despair.
(b) Hope without a specific religion.
(c) Vivid pictures of the abstract concepts which Sacks sought.
(d) Beautiful language to express hope.

4. In the quote from St. John of the Cross in Chapter Three, where does the light guide the man?
(a) To the place where God was waiting for him.
(b) To the place of unconditional love.
(c) To peaceful darkness.
(d) To the place of eternal peace.

5. On one particular September morning, why did Sacks deeply enjoy lighting his pipe?
(a) The pipe fit into the scenery and his mood.
(b) He thought he had never before had the leisure to light one.
(c) He saw the pipe as a sign of returning health.
(d) He was a smoker.

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

7. Why did Sacks refer to the doctor's visits as "odious" (Chapter Six, pg 159)?
(a) He had to play the part of the accepting, passive patient.
(b) The doctor was unusually harsh with him.
(c) He preferred to be the doctor as the patient.
(d) He did not trust or like the doctor.

8. When moving out of his tiny hospital room, why did Sacks see the world as two-dimensional?
(a) The denervation process had also affected his eyes.
(b) His vision reflected his changed thinking.
(c) The denervation process had affected only his left eye.
(d) His field of vision had shrunk.

9. What was scheduled for Wednesday the 11th?
(a) Sacks would move from the hospital to the convalescent home.
(b) The temporary leg cast would be removed.
(c) Sacks would get out of bed and walk.
(d) Therapy would become quite intense.

10. What quality of Limbo is inherent in scotoma?
(a) Absence.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) No physical placement in space.
(d) Timelessness.

11. Previous to his accident, how did Sacks think things were accomplished in the world?
(a) By reason and will.
(b) By love and understanding.
(c) By sheer willpower.
(d) By external impetus.

12. Following his second fall, how long did Sacks wait before surgery was performed
(a) Three hours.
(b) Two hours.
(c) Eight hours.
(d) Half an hour.

13. What color did Head attribute to neurology?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Grey.
(d) Black.

14. At the beginning of Chapter Four, what is the essence of William Harvey's questions?
(a) What is the first cause of thought?
(b) How much control does man have over his movements?
(c) What controls all bodily movements?
(d) What is the first cause of movement?

15. What vital change in the world happened once Sacks moved out of his first hospital room?
(a) He became part of a community again.
(b) He felt distant from the other patients though he had expected to feel closer.
(c) He reinforced his individuality.
(d) He was intimidated by the vastness of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sacks's knee return to its full functionality?

2. What was the name of the convalescent home where Sacks recovered?

3. As noted at the end of Chapter Three, what did Sacks begin to do?

4. Before he took a step, what visual problem did Sacks have?

5. When Sacks first entered into the field of neurology, what excited him most?

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