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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Three through Five.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Reymond every three to four weeks, according to the notes of Sacks in the beginning of this book?
(a) New patients.
(b) Migraines.
(c) A new pill.
(d) A new study.

2. What can be impossible when the pain of a migraine is intense, according to this book?
(a) Eating.
(b) Reading.
(c) Activity.
(d) Speaking.

3. What did the man begin to use when he realized that sneezing might be able to relieve his migraine pain?
(a) Baby powder.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Snuff.
(d) Pepper.

4. What does the answer to #31 typically precede, according to previous case studies in Sacks' research?
(a) Heart attacks.
(b) Epileptic seizures.
(c) Surgeries.
(d) Cancer.

5. What is always present to some degree, even if it varies from one migraine case to another?
(a) Nausea.
(b) Anger.
(c) Tremors.
(d) Depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many areas of aural symptoms does Sacks point out to be the case for most patients?

2. Where is the physicist du Bois Reymond from, according to the descriptions in this manuscript?

3. Some people will continue on with their lives during a migraine, though they will still contend with __________ at some point.

4. Sacks pointed out that a woman's hair turned __________ on one side, the side where she would have her headaches.

5. What is usually violent and often relegated to just one side of the head when it is present?

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