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

2. How is the main character affected by Reagan's speech?
(a) She is totally enamored with it
(b) She hates it
(c) She hears inconsistencies in it that others cannot
(d) She cannot understand it at all

3. Sacks finds his patients:
(a) Boring
(b) Intriguing
(c) Evil
(d) Horrible

4. What is the disorder discussed in the chapter named by Sacks?
(a) Dissolution
(b) Transcendence
(c) Reminiscences
(d) Disintegration

5. What surgery is the main character admitted into the hospital to have?
(a) Appendectomy
(b) Back surgery
(c) Kidney transplant
(d) Gallbladder surgery

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main character's affliction?

2. William Penfield calls the disorder discussed in the chapter by what technical name?

3. How does the 'what science leaves out' theme play out in this chapter?

4. Who is the main character of this chapter?

5. What is the main character's affliction?

(see the answer key)

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