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This test consists of 5 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) Joy and concerto music.
(b) A lacerated leg.
(c) Air or rotting bones.
(d) Someone else's leg.

2. What was the oddest thing that happened while Sacks's shoulder and arm were in a cast?
(a) They gave him constant pain.
(b) He forgot that he had ever had them.
(c) Their nerve endings no longer responded to stimuli.
(d) He could no longer feel their presence.

3. To what does Sacks compare the coming revolution in neurology?
(a) Newton's discovery.
(b) Galileo's discovery.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The American Revolution.

4. What tragedy did Darwin experience, which Sacks explains?
(a) He became more happy as he learned more science.
(b) He turned against art as inessential to life.
(c) He lost his taste for science.
(d) He lost his taste for art and music.

5. What was the name of the convalescent home where Sacks recovered?
(a) Hampstead Heath.
(b) Hampstead.
(c) Kenmoore.
(d) Kenwood.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To what does Einstein compare creating a new theory?

4. Sacks had written to Luria explaining his accident and the subsequent alienation he felt. What was Luria's response?

5. Why could Head not explain the poetry of music and movement the way he felt it?

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