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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapter Twenty-Three, The Twins.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main character's primary affliction?
(a) Cannot see whole personalities
(b) Cannot remember who she is
(c) Cannot see the right-side of her visual field
(d) Cannot understand faces

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

3. What is a visual phantom?
(a) When a patient has a persistent hallucination of a person or other being accompanying or harassing him/her.
(b) When a patient's perception is confused and they cannot navigate well.
(c) When a patient has hallucinations of past events.
(d) When a patient sees shapes and colors that are not there.

4. How does the main character become himself again?
(a) Working A Job
(b) Worshipping in Church
(c) Writing Music
(d) Sculpting

5. The first main character discussed in detail exhibits what symptom?
(a) She loses her sense of time and space
(b) She is temporarily transported back to events from her teenage years each week
(c) She wakes up in the middle of the night hearing songs from her childhood
(d) She finds herself trapped within memories of being in Ireland from time to time

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the main character affected by Reagan's speech?

2. Who is the main character of this chapter?

3. What has the main character experienced over the last twenty-four years?

4. How does the remedy work?

5. The character's condition is caused by polyneuritis, which is:

(see the answer key)

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