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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. What percentage of individuals in the old folks home where the main character lives end up using his/her solution to his/her disorder?
(a) 10%
(b) 20%
(c) 50%
(d) 33%

2. What is the main character's affliction?
(a) Tourette's syndrome
(b) Cupid's disease
(c) Korsakov's disease
(d) Phantom Limb Syndrome

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

4. Sacks sees his patients as:
(a) Real people
(b) Mere medical files
(c) Mere case studies
(d) Crazy

5. What are the effects of the main character's affliction?
(a) Inability to identify himself
(b) Inability to comprehend language
(c) Inability to attend to his right side.
(d) Inability to identify others

Short Answer Questions

1. The main character's name is

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

3. The main character's symptoms are:

4. Sacks finds his patients:

5. Where does Sacks work at the time of this chapter?

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