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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Ten through Thirteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Parts of one's _________ might also begin to feel larger or smaller because of an aura, according to Sacks.
(a) Book.
(b) Life.
(c) Head.
(d) Body.

2. Most patients, it seems, have an irresistible urge to _________ when they are suffering from a migraine, according to the studies in this book.
(a) Sleep.
(b) Bang their head against the wall.
(c) Cry.
(d) Die.

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

4. Sacks has found the the cause of some monthly migraines for women might be the result of a new ____________ regimen.
(a) Hormone treatment.
(b) Exercise.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Food.

5. _______ are unable to express pain, so Sacks says they are not useful in terms of studying migraines and how they affect the body.
(a) Comatose.
(b) Animals.
(c) Already sick patients.
(d) Babies.

Short Answer Questions

1. That migraines might have a role in one's life is the _________, rather than the rule, according to Sacks.

2. Other researchers think there might be a certain __________ or grace to those who suffer from migraines, according to their work.

3. What did the man begin to use when he realized that sneezing might be able to relieve his migraine pain?

4. Sacks uses the analogy of ________ to try to explain what he means by the way that migraines are never typical.

5. What happens to Reymond every three to four weeks, according to the notes of Sacks in the beginning of this book?

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