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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapter Eighteen, The Dog Beneath the Skin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does this affliction last?
(a) Three Weeks
(b) Three Months
(c) Three Years
(d) Three Days

2. Why would the disorder described in the chapter be a bad thing?
(a) Patients are disturbed by their false sensations.
(b) Patients do not recover from losing a limb.
(c) Patients get angry when they rediscover they do not have limbs.
(d) The brain does process information properly when patients feel their phantom limbs.

3. How many characters does the main character identify himself as in front of Dr. Sacks?
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 2
(d) 3

4. Why does the main character confabulate?
(a) He cannot figure out who others are
(b) He cannot perceive his right leg
(c) He cannot understand what people say
(d) He cannot remember his own life story

5. What is the first man worried about?
(a) Tripping over his foot.
(b) Poking his eye out.
(c) Cutting his leg.
(d) Breaking his finger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main character of this chapter?

2. What is the main character's affliction?

3. To what extent does the main character recognize his disorder?

4. What are the effects of the main character's affliction?

5. Things aren't real to the main character until he has?

(see the answer key)

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