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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sacks says that there are some patients who will not allow him to treat them in any other way, he will only treat patients in 'the only way they ________.'
(a) Try.
(b) Manage.
(c) Allow.
(d) Understand.

2. What do many patients notice about the pain they might feel when they are experiencing a migraine?
(a) It doesn't go away.
(b) It's always on one side.
(c) It's spotty.
(d) It's dull.

3. The need for the __________ mentality is more evident in the animal world because of the need for biological survival.
(a) Aggressive.
(b) Flight or flight.
(c) Avoidant.
(d) No pain.

4. Migraines may very well take on the particular aspects of the ________ though it may never be clear what prompts the unit as a whole.
(a) Pain.
(b) Sufferer.
(c) Home.
(d) Life.

5. Some people will continue on with their lives during a migraine, though they will still contend with __________ at some point.
(a) Lethargy.
(b) Annoyance.
(c) Immobility.
(d) Pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some patients only need to be seen once in a while to make sure they are maintaining their _________ for managing their migraines.

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

3. Sacks describes the idea of a migraine to be __________, in his opinion, though others may not share it.

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

5. Another of the medical deterrents to treating a migraine is aimed at the emotional ______ where this is considered to be a primary source of migraines.

(see the answer key)

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