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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter Six, Phantoms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what extent is Jimmie G's intelligence impaired?
(a) Severly
(b) Slightly
(c) Moderately
(d) Not at all

2. What feature of humans does Sacks wonder if Jimmie lacks?
(a) Soul
(b) Long-term Memory
(c) Hearing
(d) Smell

3. The chapter covers a disorder where people who have lost limbs believe and feel that they are still there. What is this disorder called?
(a) Illusory Limb Syndrome
(b) Phantom Limb Syndrome
(c) Phantom Limb Disease
(d) Illusory Limb Disease

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

5. Where does Sacks work at the time of this chapter?
(a) National Institutes of Mental Health
(b) Neuroscience Clinic
(c) Home for the Aged
(d) Therapist's Office

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the technical term of Jimmie G.'s disorder?

2. What is the main character's most frustrating disability?

3. Who is the neuroscientist Sacks receives advice from in Chapter 1?

4. What time period is Jimmie stuck in?

5. Dr. P is a teacher of what?

(see the answer key)

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