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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the main character's previous occupation?
(a) Math Teacher
(b) Gym Teacher
(c) English Teacher
(d) History Teacher
2. How do the main character's nurses help him/her fix his/her disability?
(a) Putting medicine in the patient's IV.
(b) Giving the patient electroshock therapy.
(c) Recommending surgery.
(d) Putting a food tray out of reach.
3. What additional form of memory can people with Jimmie G.'s disorder lose?
(a) Visual Memory
(b) Sensual Memory
(c) Olfactory Memory
(d) Auditory Memory
4. What feature of humans does Sacks wonder if Jimmie lacks?
(a) Hearing
(b) Long-term Memory
(c) Soul
(d) Smell
5. What aspect of his patients is Sacks concerned to communicate to his reader?
(a) Their representation of self
(b) Their diagnosis
(c) Their neurological defect
(d) Their treatment
Short Answer Questions
1. The main character cannot perceive:
2. What does Mr. P do to keep himself oriented?
3. Which medicine is used to calm down the main character?
4. How does the main character's emotions change when he wakes up from his nap?
5. Where does Sacks work at the time of this chapter?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is proprioception? What does losing it prevent you from doing?
2. Who is the main character in this chapter? What is his affliction? How does it affect him?
3. What is the main character's affliction? How it is treated?
4. Why does it matter to Sacks that he tell stories about his patients rather than giving sterile case studies?
5. What are the main character's experiences due to her affliction about? How does she react to them?
6. How does Dr. Sacks approach the main character?
7. Speculate as to why Sacks included Hildegard of Bingen in this book.
8. What are Madeline J.'s afflictions? Which one is most frustrating to her and why?
9. What is Mr. MacGregor's disorder? How does he discover it?
10. How does Sacks see the theme of 'what science leaves out' play into the chapter? What does he thinks this leaves out?
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