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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. What was the first exercise that Sacks tried to do with the physiotherapist?
2. What question did Sacks want to ask the surgeon before surgery?
3. What does the word scotoma mean?
4. What was the name of the surgeon who performed Sacks's knee surgery?
5. What was the occasion for this book?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the detail from Sacks's journal explain? How does this excerpt capture the split between doctor and patient, which is captured in one person?
2. How does Sacks describe the bull? How does this description show his change of heart from the time he read the warning sign?
3. With what quote does Sacks begin Chapter Three? How does this set the tone for the entire chapter?
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. While in the hospital, Sacks felt morally and physically prostrate before the doctor. How do you think this happened?
6. The night before his cast was taken off, Sacks repeatedly dreamed a nightmare. What was this nightmare? How did it reveal the conflict in his mind?
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. 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?
9. Through what physical senses does Sacks reenter the world of men?
10. Who visited Sacks the evening after his operation? Why does he not mention these people again?
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
As Sacks was being pressured to begin walking, what miracle occurred? How was this miracle the same thing he had been working toward since his accident?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the world of the convalescent home. How did Sacks change and grow stronger here? What did he learn about himself? How did the convalescent home allow him to approach the world again?
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