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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seventeen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a patient realizes he will have less pain when he fights off a severe attack, he is more likely to choose to undergo a brief bout of ___________.
(a) Therapy.
(b) Activity.
(c) Medication.
(d) Serious pain.

2. Sacks pointed out that a woman's hair turned __________ on one side, the side where she would have her headaches.
(a) Brown.
(b) White.
(c) Gray.
(d) Black.

3. Physicians, according to Sacks, often make ______ decisions based on impertinent, improper, and irresponsible interpretations.
(a) Correct.
(b) Believable.
(c) Hasty.
(d) Tactile.

4. The advice that Sacks gives patients, as referenced in #125, has been around since the time of __________, according to the author.
(a) Plato.
(b) Hippocrates.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Tyrranus.

5. Some people who have constant migraines that interrupt their life may have to _________ to live with them.
(a) Begin.
(b) Manage.
(c) Try.
(d) Learn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sacks has found the the cause of some monthly migraines for women might be the result of a new ____________ regimen.

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

3. 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.

4. What is the title that Ralph M. Siegel has, according to the way he is described in this chapter?

5. Severe _________ may also be the only symptom of a migraine, but it may also exist as an isolated symptom.

(see the answer key)

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