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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. When was Studies in Neurology published?
2. How does Sacks describe the six-hour ambulance ride to the next hospital?
3. Following the surgery, how did Sacks's cast fit his leg?
4. Sacks climbed a particular stretch of ground in just over an hour. How long did it take him to descend this same stretch?
5. What time of day did Sacks awake from his feverish delirium?
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. With what quote does Sacks begin Chapter Three? How does this set the tone for the entire chapter?
3. What was the life voice which Sacks heard on the mountain? How was this voice stronger than his circumstances?
4. Sacks discovered, to his horror, that his mental and moral boundaries had shrunk to the limits of the hospital. What does this mean? How did this differ from his mindset before the accident?
5. How does the quote at the beginning of Chapter Four compare to Sacks's own words which begin the chapter?
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. How does Sacks describe the bull? How does this description show his change of heart from the time he read the warning sign?
8. While descending the mountain, what vision did Sacks cling to? Why do you think this was the picture he chose?
9. During his descent off the mountain, what is Sacks's connection to humanity? How does this contrast to nature's impersonality?
10. How does Sacks describe his arrival at the convalescent home? What particular words contribute to the picture he draws?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
On what did Sacks pin his hopes of recovery? How does this describe his mentality? How does it describe his attitude?
Essay Topic 2
Following the surgery, Sacks's spirit entered into the "dark night of the soul" (Chapter Three, pg 86). Find another example of this in literature and compare the two instances. Analyze personalities, situations, and reactions in order to understand both.
Essay Topic 3
What two distinctions did Sacks make for his attitudes while he was in Limbo? How were these distinctions borne out throughout his recovery (though he didn't allude to them so obviously after his time in Limbo)?
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