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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Fourteen through Sixteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is found in about one fourth of all patients who have migraine pains and other symptoms?
(a) Nasal stuffiness.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) Tremors.
(d) Nausea.

2. The ________ is the word traditionally associated with the sensory illusions that a migraine sufferer may experience.
(a) Aura.
(b) Migraine.
(c) Pain.
(d) Trauma.

3. Sometimes auras can be so powerful so as to have the appearance of a __________ in some patients.
(a) Madness.
(b) Seizure.
(c) Stroke.
(d) Heart murmur.

4. What kinds of headaches might wake up a patient in the middle of the night, according to studies?
(a) Migraine.
(b) Cluster.
(c) Movement.
(d) Terror.

5. Another uncommon drug therapy for migraines which has been prescribed by Sacks is _____________.
(a) Weight loss drugs.
(b) Downers.
(c) Amphetamines.
(d) Psychotropics.

Short Answer Questions

1. One patient believes there are small _________ in the room with him, even when there are not.

2. Parts of one's _________ might also begin to feel larger or smaller because of an aura, according to Sacks.

3. There are some patients that obviously suffer from periodical or causal attacks but that the larger group will defy easy _____________.

4. There is substantial evidence that there may be a _______________ between migraines and those who suffer from epileptic seizures.

5. The _________ of a person who is suffering from a migraine becomes an important part of the study of migraines, according to Sacks.

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