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

2. How does the main character seem when Sacks meets him?
(a) Fearful and uneasy
(b) Upbeat and joyful
(c) Calm and even tempered
(d) Agitaged and concerned

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

4. At what stage of Sacks' career does he encounter the main character of Chapter Four?
(a) As a young medical student
(b) As a resident
(c) As a young doctor
(d) As a doctor in the middle of his career practice

5. The main character in this chapter controls her disorder by doing what?
(a) Mimicing other people's actions
(b) Intense Concentration
(c) Medicine
(d) Dancing

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the remedy work?

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

3. How does the patient respond to Sacks?

4. What is a visual phantom?

5. Which other character in the book does the main character in this chapter share a disorder with?

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