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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapter Nineteen, Murder.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the patient react to her perceptions of individuals as fractured?
(a) She is angry
(b) She sees no problem with it
(c) She is depressed
(d) She is shocked

2. How does the main character feel about his/her body?
(a) That it will spontaneously combust.
(b) That it is deteriorating.
(c) That it has a mind of its own.
(d) That it is detached from him/her.

3. Sacks is a:
(a) Philosopher
(b) Economist
(c) Neuroscientist
(d) Journalist

4. William Penfield calls the disorder discussed in the chapter by what technical name?
(a) Mental Aphasia
(b) Mental Displopia
(c) Mental Degradation
(d) Mental Agnosia

5. When is the affliction discovered and treated? When is it rediscovered?
(a) Age 6 and 25
(b) Age 7 and 18
(c) Age 5 and 35
(d) Age 4 and 45

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main character of the chapter?

2. The chapter covers a disorder where people who have lost limbs believe and feel that they are still there. What is this disorder called?

3. What is a visual phantom?

4. Which part of the main character's body does he/she refer to as "lumps of dough?"

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

(see the answer key)

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