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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter Three, The Disembodied Lady.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Sacks says taht for a long time which part of the brain was thought to be less complex?
(a) The left hemisphere
(b) Parietal Lobe
(c) The right hemisphere
(d) Frontal Lobe

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

5. Most neuroscientists thought that most neurological disorders were caused by damage to what part of the brain?
(a) Parietal lobe
(b) The right hemisphere
(c) Frontal lobe
(d) The Left hemisphere

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what extent is Jimmie G's intelligence impaired?

3. What is the consequence scientists pay when they ignore the a patient's high cognitive function?

4. If Sacks called his chapters 'studies' what would that mean about his attitude?

5. What aspect of his patients is Sacks concerned to communicate to his reader?

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