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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. Sacks sees his patients as:
(a) Real people
(b) Crazy
(c) Mere medical files
(d) Mere case studies

2. How does the main character feel about his/her body?
(a) That it is detached from him/her.
(b) That it is deteriorating.
(c) That it has a mind of its own.
(d) That it will spontaneously combust.

3. After Dr. Sacks and Mr. P part ways, how much longer does Mr. P teach music?
(a) 1 year
(b) 5 years
(c) 10 years
(d) The rest of his life

4. What surgery is the main character admitted into the hospital to have?
(a) Appendectomy
(b) Back surgery
(c) Gallbladder surgery
(d) Kidney transplant

5. Sacks sees himself as having what kind of personality?
(a) Both
(b) Neither
(c) A Romantic
(d) A Clinician

Short Answer Questions

1. What feature of humans does Sacks wonder if Jimmie lacks?

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

3. What is proprioception?

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

5. Dr. P is a teacher of what?

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