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

2. Who is the neuroscientist Sacks receives advice from in Chapter 1?
(a) Pinker
(b) Edelman
(c) Petersen
(d) Luria

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

4. What time period is Jimmie stuck in?
(a) 1965
(b) 1955
(c) 1945
(d) 1975

5. Where is the main character sitting when the nurses find him?
(a) On the floor
(b) On the side of his bed
(c) In a chair
(d) In the hall

Short Answer Questions

1. Sacks is different from a fiction writer because:

2. Dr. P cannot recognize what?

3. What does Sacks compare his tales to?

4. At what stage of Sacks' career does he encounter the main character of Chapter Four?

5. What is the main character's affliction?

(see the answer key)

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