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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. Sacks sees himself as having what kind of personality?
(a) Both
(b) A Romantic
(c) Neither
(d) A Clinician
2. What surgery is the main character admitted into the hospital to have?
(a) Appendectomy
(b) Kidney transplant
(c) Gallbladder surgery
(d) Back surgery
3. How do the main character's nurses help him/her fix his/her disability?
(a) Putting a food tray out of reach.
(b) Giving the patient electroshock therapy.
(c) Recommending surgery.
(d) Putting medicine in the patient's IV.
4. The chapter covers a disorder where people who have lost limbs believe and feel that they are still there. What is this disorder called?
(a) Phantom Limb Disease
(b) Phantom Limb Syndrome
(c) Illusory Limb Syndrome
(d) Illusory Limb Disease
5. How many cases are covered in this chapter?
(a) Three
(b) Two
(c) Five
(d) Four
Short Answer Questions
1. What branch of the armed services was Jimmie G. in?
2. The main character suffers a stroke and this affects which side of his/her brain?
3. Where is the main character sitting when the nurses find him?
4. How is the main character treated?
5. Dr. P cannot recognize what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the source of the twins' ability? How can they lose their ability?
2. What are the main character's experiences due to her affliction about? How does she react to them?
3. Sacks claims that he is trying to mix two different parts of his personality. Which two parts are these and how does he attempt to mix them?
4. Explain the impact of hearing Reagan's speech on the main character. What does he/she notice that others do not? What does she miss?
5. Why does A. R. Luria advise Sacks to present case histories as stories? What aspect of his stories does Sacks focus on as a result?
6. What is the main character's affliction? What crime is he on trial for? What is the outcome of the trial?
7. What is the cause of the main character's affliction? When is it first treated? When does it return?
8. What disorder to Jimmie have? What is it called? What does it involve? Can patients with this disorder make progress?
9. What is Witty Ticcy Ray's disorder? How does it hurt him? How does it benefit him?
10. What is Mrs. O'C's primary symptom? What is Mrs. O'M's primary symptom? How do their attitudes differ about their symptoms?
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