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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter Five, Hands.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sacks call his chapters?
(a) Studies
(b) Sections
(c) Chapters
(d) Stories

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

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

4. What is proprioception?
(a) The sense of smell.
(b) The sense that monitors the heartbeat.
(c) The sense of taste.
(d) The sense that monitors physical movement.

5. To what extent is Jimmie G's intelligence impaired?
(a) Slightly
(b) Moderately
(c) Not at all
(d) Severly

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the main character's emotions change when he wakes up from his nap?

2. Sacks is different from a fiction writer because:

3. Sacks' book is different from a college textbook in that it:

4. Sacks is a:

5. The character's condition is caused by polyneuritis, which is:

(see the answer key)

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