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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 does Mr. P do to keep himself oriented?
(a) Follows his wife's instructions
(b) Memorizes routines
(c) Sings to himself
(d) Asks for help

2. What is the first man worried about?
(a) Cutting his leg.
(b) Poking his eye out.
(c) Breaking his finger.
(d) Tripping over his foot.

3. In what place does Jimmie recover a part of himself?
(a) Work
(b) Home
(c) Chapel
(d) School

4. Sacks finds his patients:
(a) Boring
(b) Horrible
(c) Evil
(d) Intriguing

5. What aspect of his patients is Sacks concerned to communicate to his reader?
(a) Their diagnosis
(b) Their treatment
(c) Their representation of self
(d) Their neurological defect

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the main character?

2. What is the technical term of Jimmie G.'s disorder?

3. How does the main character feel about his/her body?

4. Sacks is different from a fiction writer because:

5. How does the main character seem when Sacks meets him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the two main character's in this chapter? What is their affliction called and what does it generally consist in?

2. Who is the main character in this chapter? What is his affliction? How does it affect him?

3. What is William's affliction? How does it affect him with Dr. Sacks?

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

5. 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?

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

7. How is Mrs. S treated? What is a treatment that she despises?

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

9. How does Sacks see the theme of 'what science leaves out' play into the chapter? What does he thinks this leaves out?

10. How does Dr. Sacks approach the main character?

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