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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The main character's disorder involves a breakdown of cooperation between which three body systems?
(a) Hearing, balance organs, and vision
(b) Hearing, balance organs, and proprioception
(c) Vision, balance organs, and proprioception
(d) Hearing, proprioception, and vision

3. Why would the disorder described in the chapter be a bad thing?
(a) Patients are disturbed by their false sensations.
(b) Patients do not recover from losing a limb.
(c) The brain does process information properly when patients feel their phantom limbs.
(d) Patients get angry when they rediscover they do not have limbs.

4. 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 sees shapes and colors that are not there.
(d) When a patient has hallucinations of past events.

5. What happens when the main character attempts to remove one of his body parts?
(a) He howls with pain.
(b) He throws himself onto the floor.
(c) He bleeds profusely.
(d) He breaks his leg.

6. What does the main character do with this body part?
(a) Throws it out of bed
(b) Beats it until it is bruised
(c) Tries to cut it off
(d) Asks someone to amputate it

7. For Sacks it is important to treat his patients with:
(a) A Helping Hand
(b) Love
(c) Respect
(d) Disdain

8. Which of Sacks' questions in the main character unable to answer?
(a) Where his proper leg is
(b) Where his proper arm is
(c) Where his proper face is
(d) Where his proper hands are

9. How is the main character affected by Reagan's speech?
(a) She hates it
(b) She hears inconsistencies in it that others cannot
(c) She is totally enamored with it
(d) She cannot understand it at all

10. If Sacks called his chapters 'studies' what would that mean about his attitude?
(a) He is detached from his patients.
(b) He likes his patients.
(c) He is professional.
(d) He despises his patients.

11. 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) Short-term Amnesia
(c) Postgrade Amensia
(d) Retrograde Amensia

12. What is the cause of the main character's inability to use one of her body parts?
(a) There is no cause; it is an illusion.
(b) A Virus
(c) Cerebral Palsy
(d) Blindness

13. How does the main character feel about his/her body?
(a) That it has a mind of its own.
(b) That it will spontaneously combust.
(c) That it is deteriorating.
(d) That it is detached from him/her.

14. Why is the main character confused?
(a) He can't figure out how to detach his arm from his body.
(b) He can't figure out how to detach his leg from his body.
(c) He can't figure out how to remove his face.
(d) He can't figure out how to remove his hands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The main character of this chapter has which disorder?

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

3. What is the name of the main character mentioned in the postscript?

4. Sacks' patients are typically:

5. What percentage of individuals in the old folks home where the main character lives end up using his/her solution to his/her disorder?

(see the answer keys)

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