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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. What does the main character lose when he loses his affliction?
(a) Depression
(b) Inhibition
(c) Luck
(d) Happiness

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

3. How do the main character's nurses help him/her fix his/her disability?
(a) Giving the patient electroshock therapy.
(b) Putting medicine in the patient's IV.
(c) Putting a food tray out of reach.
(d) Recommending surgery.

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

5. What year does Sacks think Jimmie G's memory should have stopped?
(a) 1965
(b) 1945
(c) 1955
(d) 1975

Short Answer Questions

1. William Penfield calls the disorder discussed in the chapter by what technical name?

2. Which capacity of the main character is enhanced by his/her disability?

3. What is his problem with body?

4. In what place does Jimmie recover a part of himself?

5. What is the first man worried about?

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