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

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

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

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

5. Sacks' book is different from a college textbook in that it:
(a) Has a more scientific style
(b) Has a more rushed style
(c) Has a friendlier style
(d) Has a slower pace

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to him after he commits murder?

2. Sacks says taht for a long time which part of the brain was thought to be less complex?

3. To what extent does the main character recognize his disorder?

4. Where does Sacks work at the time of this chapter?

5. The main character has which problem?

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