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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vital change in the world happened once Sacks moved out of his first hospital room?
(a) He was intimidated by the vastness of the world.
(b) He felt distant from the other patients though he had expected to feel closer.
(c) He became part of a community again.
(d) He reinforced his individuality.

2. While in limbo, what feeling did Sacks have to allow, which he first found humiliating?
(a) Inerrancy.
(b) Passivity.
(c) Activity.
(d) Inadequacy.

3. Before he took a step, what visual problem did Sacks have?
(a) He could not judge objects or distances.
(b) The floor looked closer than it actually was.
(c) He could not see his feet.
(d) He could not distinguish colors.

4. What group of people did Weir Mitchell write about?
(a) Healthy Korean veterans.
(b) The patients in his New York clinic.
(c) Wounded WWII veterans.
(d) Wounded Civil War veterans.

5. As Sacks returned to his room, what was the weather like?
(a) Dark and stormy.
(b) Lightly snowing.
(c) Chilly and wet.
(d) Sunny and warm.

Short Answer Questions

1. As noted at the end of Chapter Three, what did Sacks begin to do?

2. Why was it difficult for Sacks to proceed through the land of limbo?

3. What concerto did Sacks listen to on a cassette tape?

4. Why were the set times and limits at the convalescent home important?

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

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