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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Sacks meet the bull?
2. How long did Sacks think about his injury before he began writing about it?
3. When did Sacks write the preface to the book?
4. What was the occasion for this book?
5. What town's hospital was Sacks taken to first?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who visited Sacks the evening after his operation? Why does he not mention these people again?
2. What is anosognosis? What problem does this state present to medical researchers?
3. With what quote does Sacks begin Chapter Three? How does this set the tone for the entire chapter?
4. Sacks notes that "body-image is dynamic and plastic" (Afterword, pg 194). What does this mean?
5. How did Sacks move from the world of freedom into the world of the hospital? How might this have contributed to his thought that the operation on the following day would actually be an execution?
6. What meals does Sacks describe most from his time in the hospital? What do these meals say about his frame of mind at each time?
7. What was the life voice which Sacks heard on the mountain? How was this voice stronger than his circumstances?
8. All of Chapter Five is devoted to the moment Sacks took his first step. What literary effect does this have on the book?
9. During the first night in the hospital whom did Sacks see in his dream? How did Sacks live to imitate this person?
10. What did Sacks think when he saw his left leg for the first time in two weeks? How did his own thoughts tie into the doctor's summary of the recovery?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What aspect of nature had Sacks forgotten about while he lay in his hospital bed? How does this compare to his previous lifestyle: hiking, swimming, etc?
Essay Topic 2
Note Dr. Swan's attitude toward Sacks's injury compared to Sacks's attitude. How do they differ? In Sacks's attitude toward his own injury, what are the elements of a physician? What are the elements of a patient? What does he think of Dr. Swan's professional opinion?
Essay Topic 3
What role does sight play in Sacks's story? When is his sight best and worst? What affects his sight? How do his eyes serve as symbols of his leg's injury and recovery?
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