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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. 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) The brain does process information properly when patients feel their phantom limbs.
(d) Patients get angry when they rediscover they do not have limbs.

2. What is the main character's affliction?
(a) Elevated Hearing
(b) Elevated Proprioception
(c) Elevated Sense of Smell
(d) Elevated Sex Drive

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

4. What is the main character's occupation?
(a) Lawyer
(b) Nurse
(c) Doctor
(d) Medical Student

5. What is a visual phantom?
(a) When a patient has hallucinations of past events.
(b) When a patient's perception is confused and they cannot navigate well.
(c) When a patient sees shapes and colors that are not there.
(d) When a patient has a persistent hallucination of a person or other being accompanying or harassing him/her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the main character confabulate?

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

3. Who is the main character of this chapter?

4. How many cases are covered in this chapter?

5. The chapter covers a disorder where people who have lost limbs believe and feel that they are still there. What is this disorder called?

(see the answer key)

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