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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapter Sixteen, Incontinent Nostalgia.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what place does Jimmie recover a part of himself?
(a) Work
(b) Chapel
(c) School
(d) Home

3. What is the treatment the main character undergoes?
(a) L-Depikote
(b) L-Amictal
(c) L-Acroymose
(d) L-Dopa

4. Why would the disorder described in the chapter be a bad thing?
(a) The brain does process information properly when patients feel their phantom limbs.
(b) Patients do not recover from losing a limb.
(c) Patients get angry when they rediscover they do not have limbs.
(d) Patients are disturbed by their false sensations.

5. Why is the main character confused?
(a) He can't figure out how to detach his arm from his body.
(b) He can't figure out how to remove his hands.
(c) He can't figure out how to remove his face.
(d) He can't figure out how to detach his leg from his body.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Dr. Sacks use to describe the way the main character feels?

2. Sacks sees his patients as:

3. How does the main character feel about his/her body?

4. The main character responds to treatment by first regaining what?

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

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