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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) St. Martin-in-the-Field.
(b) St. Paul's Cathedral.
(c) Buckingham Palace.
(d) Westminster Abbey.

2. Why was it difficult for Sacks to proceed through the land of limbo?
(a) He had no music.
(b) There was no map or chart.
(c) He had no traveling companions.
(d) There was no God figure present.

3. In the hospital gardens, what set patients off from non-patients?
(a) Their attitude toward other people.
(b) Their white hospital gowns.
(c) Their demeanor of illness.
(d) Their various bandages and stitches.

4. When Sacks talks about the hole in memory and identity, what is he referring to (Afterword, pg 200)?
(a) A hole in the higher-order consciousness.
(b) A hole in his sense of selfhood.
(c) A hole in his subconscious understanding of the world.
(d) A hole in the primary consciousness.

5. Why is the phrase "uneventful recovery" misleading?
(a) Recovery is actually a series of events.
(b) Recovery is the greatest event of the patient's life.
(c) The phrase implies a peaceful recovery, which is never possible.
(d) Recovery has no relationship to events.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once he began walking again, what time had arrived for Sacks?

2. What did Sacks hope to accomplish by reading Head's books?

3. When moving out of his tiny hospital room, why did Sacks see the world as two-dimensional?

4. How did one of the surgical registrars refer to being a patient?

5. How many days did Sacks spend in limbo?

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