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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. How does the main character's emotions change when he wakes up from his nap?
(a) Calm and even tempered
(b) Fearful and uneasy
(c) Upbeat and joyful
(d) Agitated and angry

2. Dr. P cannot recognize what?
(a) Emotions
(b) Faces
(c) Sounds
(d) Pictures

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

4. Sacks is a:
(a) Neuroscientist
(b) Journalist
(c) Philosopher
(d) Economist

5. How do the main character's nurses help him/her fix his/her disability?
(a) Putting a food tray out of reach.
(b) Recommending surgery.
(c) Giving the patient electroshock therapy.
(d) Putting medicine in the patient's IV.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many cases are covered in this chapter?

2. What is Dr. Sacks' treatment of the main character?

3. What does Sacks call his chapters?

4. What branch of the armed services was Jimmie G. in?

5. After Dr. Sacks and Mr. P part ways, how much longer does Mr. P teach music?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the main character believe is wrong?

2. What is Mrs. S condition? What is its cause? What are some of her symptoms?

3. Why does it matter to Sacks that he tell stories about his patients rather than giving sterile case studies?

4. How does Sacks answer the following questions? Is there a place in society for people like Jose? Does Jose have a functional role in society? Or is he too disabled to function?

5. Where is the main character housed after the trial? How does he come to recall the crime he committed?

6. How do observes view the main character, given his inability to recognize that his leg hasn't been replaced?

7. What is the main character's affliction? How it is treated?

8. Who is the main character in this chapter? What is the main character's occupation and affliction?

9. What is strange about the period that Jimmie is stuck in from Dr. Sacks' perspective?

10. How does Sacks react to Mrs. B's view about her own condition?

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