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

2. What is the cause of their ability?
(a) A Lesion in the Amygdala
(b) No one knows
(c) An Enlarged Temporal Lobe
(d) A Dense Frontal Cortex

3. What was the main character's old line of work that helped in compensating for the main character's disorder?
(a) Farming
(b) Pottery
(c) Aviation
(d) Carpentry

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

5. The second main character in the chapter hears what over and over again?
(a) Some conversations she remembers from her childhood
(b) A discussion with her father about her mother's death
(c) Some old rock tunes from her youth
(d) Three hymns that she knows

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the main character's body does he have a problem with?

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

3. Sacks' book is different from a college textbook in that it:

4. How does Dr. Sacks respond to the main character?

5. Sacks thinks of his patients as:

(see the answer key)

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