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

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

3. There may also be changes in ________ as a result of an aura, according to Sacks in this section of the book.
(a) Pain.
(b) Coloring.
(c) Mood.
(d) Truth.

4. Finally, there may be disorders of perception, __________, and memory during the course of aural symptoms.
(a) Movement.
(b) Coloring.
(c) Anger.
(d) Speech.

5. Sacks discusses the way that ________ can change in people who are in the middle of a migraine attack.
(a) Ideas.
(b) Diseases.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Moods.

Short Answer Questions

1. There are other hallucinations in which _________ may appear to be bigger or smaller than they actually are.

2. Unusual __________ occur in about one tenth of patients, according to the descriptions in the book.

3. Those who have ________ migraines are often those who are prone to blushing in their everyday lives.

4. Sacks says there is no way to predict every stage of a migraine as the migraine is, by definition, __________ in nature.

5. The symptoms of a migraine, as described in this chapter, include a feeling of _______ as well as the classic symptoms of migraine which are present in this section.

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