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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 is the material in the last chapter presented?
2. What analogy does Sacks refer to as he draws the relationship between science and art?
3. In order to escape being caught on the mountain all night, what was the latest possible time Sacks could reach help?
4. When was Studies in Neurology published?
5. How long did Sacks wait before villagers carried him to the hospital?
Short Essay Questions
1. At his arrival to the Odda hospital, what was Sacks's experience with Nurse Solveig? How did this exemplify the prostration he began to feel in the hospital?
2. While Sacks was lying in his small hospital room, what happened to his eyes? How was this transformation similar to his leg's injury?
3. Sacks says that simply his ability to stand changed the world and his place in it. How did this happen?
4. When Sacks was in the hospital, why did he hesitate to write about his experience? What mindset change enabled him to write?
5. How does Sacks describe the bull? How does this description show his change of heart from the time he read the warning sign?
6. To whom did Sacks dedicate the book A Leg to Stand On? Why might he have chosen this person?
7. What did Sacks do when he finally wanted to escape the convalescent home? How did the woman he met treat him differently than the hospital nurses had?
8. As Sacks began to regain freedom and move around the hospital, he frequently mentioned natural elements: the birds, sun, and wind. Given what you know of his personality, why are these things important?
9. What is the literary effect of Sacks's description of his injury? Why do you think the injury is not detailed later?
10. While descending the mountain, what vision did Sacks cling to? Why do you think this was the picture he chose?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
How does Sacks describe his first ten minutes of walking again (Chapter Five, pgs 123-24)? How did this return him to the moment of humanity? How does this compare to Donne's quote at the beginning of Chapter Two?
Essay Topic 3
On what did Sacks pin his hopes of recovery? How does this describe his mentality? How does it describe his attitude?
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