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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Hannah Arendt's idea about the space without time?
(a) It is the place where Man is not himself.
(b) It is the only home of Soul and Art.
(c) It is the place where Man must face himself most chillingly.
(d) It is the only place to meet God.

4. What word does Nietzsche use to describe the feeling that convalescence brings?
(a) Calmness.
(b) Intoxication.
(c) Inebriation.
(d) Brightness.

5. In Chapter Five, Sacks quotes poetry to explain the importance of music: "You are the music/ While the music lasts." Who wrote these lines?
(a) Eliot.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Kant.
(d) St. John of the Cross.

Short Answer Questions

1. During his first visit home, what type of religious ceremony did Sacks attend with his family?

2. If an outsider were to observe the patients at the convalescent home, what would he have seen?

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

4. According to Sacks, what was "the only proper posture of the soul at this time" (Chapter Three, pg 113)?

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

(see the answer keys)

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