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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapter Twenty, The Visions of Hildegard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the court treat the main character?
(a) They send his case to a court of appeals
(b) They convict him
(c) They exonerate him
(d) They refuse to hear his case

2. The first main character discussed in detail exhibits what symptom?
(a) She loses her sense of time and space
(b) She wakes up in the middle of the night hearing songs from her childhood
(c) She is temporarily transported back to events from her teenage years each week
(d) She finds herself trapped within memories of being in Ireland from time to time

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

4. What is the name of the main character mentioned in the postscript?
(a) Miguel
(b) Jimmie G.
(c) Mr. P
(d) Witty Ticcy Ray

5. What additional form of memory can people with Jimmie G.'s disorder lose?
(a) Sensual Memory
(b) Visual Memory
(c) Auditory Memory
(d) Olfactory Memory

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main character of this chapter?

2. How does Dr. Sacks respond to the main character?

3. What time period is Jimmie stuck in?

4. Which faculty of mind does Sacks argue is left out of psychology and neuroscience?

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

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