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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What color did Head attribute to neurology?
(a) Grey.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Black.
2. For people with hemi-inattention, what does "anosognosis" mean?
(a) Unawareness of their physical bodies.
(b) Inability to communicate physical distress.
(c) Inability to communicate language confusion.
(d) Unawareness that they are neglecting one half of their bodies.
3. What group of people did Weir Mitchell write about?
(a) Healthy Korean veterans.
(b) Wounded Civil War veterans.
(c) The patients in his New York clinic.
(d) Wounded WWII veterans.
4. Sacks references a chapter in Luria's book The Man with a Shattered World that profoundly affected his thoughts about recovery. What was the name of this chapter?
(a) "Reconstruction."
(b) "Under the World."
(c) "The Turning Point."
(d) "The Moment of Light."
5. Why did Sacks find beauty as well as fear in darkness?
(a) There was hope for an end.
(b) The darkness was guided by God.
(c) There was hope for a new light.
(d) The darkness was part of human experience.
Short Answer Questions
1. What vital change in the world happened once Sacks moved out of his first hospital room?
2. What word does Nietzsche use to describe the feeling that convalescence brings?
3. What tragedy did Darwin experience, which Sacks explains?
4. In Montaigne's words, who is a true doctor?
5. The day that Sacks moved out of his first hospital room, how far did he walk?
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