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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most important reason for the young painter's misery?
(a) He was impatient for the moment of death.
(b) He knew he was dying and could not accept it.
(c) He could not hide his worsening illness.
(d) He could not hide his wish for death.

2. Previous to this injury, when Sacks had had electrical currents applied to his injured neck muscles, what happened?
(a) His neck muscles had remained tense and nearly immobile.
(b) He had the undeniable impulse to shrug.
(c) His neck muscles immediately relaxed.
(d) He felt shooting pains in his back.

3. To what does Einstein compare creating a new theory?
(a) Building a skyscraper.
(b) Climbing a mountain.
(c) Rediscovering the world.
(d) Tearing down a house to build a skyscraper.

4. How has Sacks always liked to think of himself?
(a) As an explorer.
(b) As a risk-taker.
(c) As a humanitarian.
(d) As an inventor.

5. What did Sacks hope to accomplish by reading Head's books?
(a) Learn the emotional intricacies of body alienation.
(b) Divert his thinking from his own past.
(c) Receive illumination about his experiences.
(d) Understand how to prevent body alienation in the future.

Short Answer Questions

1. What vital change in the world happened once Sacks moved out of his first hospital room?

2. When Sacks talks about the hole in memory and identity, what is he referring to (Afterword, pg 200)?

3. As Sacks returned to his room, what was the weather like?

4. At what moment did Sacks's leg "return" to his body?

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

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