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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. What is the main character's affliction?
(a) Aphasia
(b) Schizophrenia
(c) Prosopagnosia
(d) Agnosia

2. There is a disorder where patients suddenly lose part of their memory back to a certain date or time period. What is it called?
(a) Long-term Amnesia
(b) Postgrade Amensia
(c) Retrograde Amensia
(d) Short-term Amnesia

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

4. How long does this affliction last?
(a) Three Years
(b) Three Months
(c) Three Days
(d) Three Weeks

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main character of this chapter?

2. The second main character in the chapter hears what over and over again?

3. The main character has a dream that foreshadows her condition? What is the dream about?

4. To what extent is Jimmie G's intelligence impaired?

5. Which sort of memory does Jimmie G. lack?

(see the answer key)

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