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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, in Sacks's family, had worked closely with Head?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His brother.

2. What was the name of the convalescent home where Sacks recovered?
(a) Because, if he has strong familial support, the world's shrinking does not matter.
(b) Because his frame of reference has also shrunk.
(c) Because he is caught up in the intricacies of his disease.
(d) Because his mental faculties are not engaged in the world around him.

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

4. Sacks did not attend the memorial service for W. H. Auden because he thought he was too weak to travel. Where was this service held?
(a) Buckingham Palace.
(b) St. Paul's Cathedral.
(c) Westminster Abbey.
(d) St. Martin-in-the-Field.

5. When Sacks first entered into the field of neurology, what excited him most?
(a) The possibility for helping ill people.
(b) The challenge of concepts and abstractions.
(c) The fact that he would not perform surgery anymore.
(d) The challenge of learning the field.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sack describe his thoughts during the first moments of standing again?

2. What group of people did Weir Mitchell write about?

3. At what moment did Sacks's leg "return" to his body?

4. On one particular September morning, why did Sacks deeply enjoy lighting his pipe?

5. Why did Sacks refer to the doctor's visits as "odious" (Chapter Six, pg 159)?

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