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

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

3. Sacks is different from a fiction writer because:
(a) He is a bad writer.
(b) He is not a trained writer.
(c) He is more scientific and philosophical than most.
(d) He has less education than most fiction writers.

4. Sacks' patients are typically:
(a) Mentally handicapped
(b) Mentally impaired
(c) Normal
(d) Geniuses

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) The Left hemisphere
(d) Frontal lobe

Short Answer Questions

1. What additional form of memory can people with Jimmie G.'s disorder lose?

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

3. How long does Sacks cover the patient's condition without seeing recovery?

4. Who is the neuroscientist Sacks receives advice from in Chapter 1?

5. What does Sacks call his chapters?

(see the answer key)

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