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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main character's most frustrating disability?
(a) She cannot talk.
(b) She cannot walk.
(c) She cannot use her hands.
(d) She cannot stand up.

2. Who is the main character in this chapter?
(a) Christina
(b) Mr. MacGregor
(c) Jimmie G.
(d) Mr. P

3. Who is the main character of this chapter?
(a) Mr. P
(b) Christina
(c) Oliver Sacks
(d) Jimmie G.

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

5. What is the main character's affliction?
(a) The patient tilts to one side when walking but is unaware of it.
(b) The patient has lost a limb but is unaware of it.
(c) The patient is paralyzed from the waist down but is unaware of it.
(d) The patient is stuck in 1955 in his mind but is unaware of it.

6. Why doesn't the introduction of a video system work?
(a) The patient is disturbed that he/she can only perceive half of his/her body
(b) The patient is upset by his/her unkempt appearance
(c) The patient can't work the video system
(d) The patient does not like to be reminded of his/her disability

7. What is his problem with body?
(a) He believes that his leg is someone else's.
(b) He believes that his hands are someone else's.
(c) He believes that his arm is someone else's.
(d) He believes that his face is someone else's.

8. How long does Sacks cover the patient's condition without seeing recovery?
(a) Eight years
(b) One year
(c) Twenty years
(d) Ten years

9. What feature of humans does Sacks wonder if Jimmie lacks?
(a) Hearing
(b) Soul
(c) Long-term Memory
(d) Smell

10. How does the remedy work?
(a) It helps him/her to be independent
(b) It helps him/her with personal hygiene
(c) It helps him/her go the bathroom properly
(d) It increases the amount of food he/she eats

11. Sacks is different from a fiction writer because:
(a) He has less education than most fiction writers.
(b) He is not a trained writer.
(c) He is a bad writer.
(d) He is more scientific and philosophical than most.

12. The main character's name is
(a) Christina
(b) Witty Ticcy Ray
(c) Emily G.
(d) Mr. P

13. How old is the character in this chapter?
(a) Late twenties
(b) Early thirties
(c) Late forties
(d) Sixties

14. What does Sacks compare his tales to?
(a) The Bible
(b) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
(c) Lawrence of Arabia
(d) Arabian Nights

15. The main character does not like his treatment. How does he/she cope?
(a) Takes medicine on the weekened but not during the week
(b) Learns to live without medicine
(c) Changes medicines
(d) Takes medicine during the week but not on the weekends

Short Answer Questions

1. Sacks thinks of his patients as:

2. The main character in this chapter has which affliction?

3. How does the main character's emotions change when he wakes up from his nap?

4. Why would the disorder described in the chapter be a bad thing?

5. At what stage of Sacks' career does he encounter the main character of Chapter Four?

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