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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did one of the surgical registrars refer to being a patient?
(a) As a pilgrimage.
(b) As an opportunity.
(c) As a test of patience.
(d) As a long trek into the light.

2. How many days did Sacks spend in limbo?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Twenty-eight.
(d) Four.

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

4. Whom does Sacks quote to illustrate his need for patient waiting?
(a) Eliot.
(b) St. Christopher.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Conrad.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Sacks find beauty as well as fear in darkness?

5. What was the oddest thing that happened while Sacks's shoulder and arm were in a cast?

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