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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Excesses: Introduction and Chapter Ten, Witty Ticcy Ray.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sacks compare his tales to?
(a) The Bible
(b) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
(c) Arabian Nights
(d) Lawrence of Arabia

3. What is a visual phantom?
(a) When a patient has hallucinations of past events.
(b) When a patient has a persistent hallucination of a person or other being accompanying or harassing him/her.
(c) When a patient's perception is confused and they cannot navigate well.
(d) When a patient sees shapes and colors that are not there.

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

5. The main character has a high level of intelligence, allowing him/her to accomplish what despite his/her disability?
(a) Go to College and Get Married
(b) Get Married
(c) Go to College
(d) Get a PhD

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Sacks' questions in the main character unable to answer?

2. Most neuroscientists thought that most neurological disorders were caused by damage to what part of the brain?

3. What is the main character's most frustrating disability?

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

5. What is the technical term of Jimmie G.'s disorder?

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