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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. What does the main character do with this body part?
(a) Asks someone to amputate it
(b) Throws it out of bed
(c) Beats it until it is bruised
(d) Tries to cut it off

2. What is the main character's affliction?
(a) Only Congenital Blindness
(b) Congential Blindness and Cerebral Palsy
(c) Neither Congenital Blindness nor Cerebral Palsy
(d) Only Cerebral Palsy

3. Why is the main character confused?
(a) He can't figure out how to remove his face.
(b) He can't figure out how to detach his arm from his body.
(c) He can't figure out how to detach his leg from his body.
(d) He can't figure out how to remove his hands.

4. Which of Sacks' questions in the main character unable to answer?
(a) Where his proper face is
(b) Where his proper hands are
(c) Where his proper arm is
(d) Where his proper leg is

5. What aspect of his patients is Sacks concerned to communicate to his reader?
(a) Their representation of self
(b) Their treatment
(c) Their neurological defect
(d) Their diagnosis

Short Answer Questions

1. Which sort of memory does Jimmie G. lack?

2. What happens when the main character attempts to remove one of his body parts?

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

4. What part of the main character's body does he have a problem with?

5. Dr. P possesses which personal qualities.

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