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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter Eight, Eyes Right!.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Dr. P cannot recognize what?
(a) Emotions
(b) Sounds
(c) Faces
(d) Pictures

3. What was the main character's old line of work that helped in compensating for the main character's disorder?
(a) Pottery
(b) Farming
(c) Aviation
(d) Carpentry

4. What word does Dr. Sacks use to describe the way the main character feels?
(a) Disembodied
(b) Dispeptic
(c) Disoriented
(d) Depressed

5. How many cases are covered in this chapter?
(a) Three
(b) Four
(c) Five
(d) Two

Short Answer Questions

1. The main character's disorder involves a breakdown of cooperation between which three body systems?

2. How does the remedy work?

3. What does Sacks compare his tales to?

4. After Dr. Sacks and Mr. P part ways, how much longer does Mr. P teach music?

5. Sacks sees his patients as:

(see the answer key)

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