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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Sacks says that _________ may prompt a migraine or might be a part of the unit of the overall event.
(a) Starvation.
(b) Diarrhea.
(c) Naps.
(d) Constipation.

Short Answer Questions

1. A precordial migraine is one in which _________ pain is the only symptom of the migraine attack, according to Sacks.

2. The man with an extreme aura seems to think he is in _________ when he is actually in New York.

3. With a migraine, there can be a _________ appearance to the eye, according to the description in this book.

4. What might be a secondary factor of a migraine headache, causing even more pain and more tension?

5. Sacks points out there are many ___________ toward many diseases and migraines are no exception to this finding.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens with the aura during a classic migraine, according to the findings of Sacks?

2. What does Sacks decide is the cause of a woman's migraines that occur on a monthly basis?

3. What did the fifty-three year old female patient say characterized the start of her migraines?

4. What can be confusing about an aura's presence, according to Sacks in this book?

5. What does Sacks say there is a tendency to do with migraines which might cause problems in their study and experience?

6. What is something that Sacks has never seen, but he has heard of in relation to the aura before a migraine?

7. What is the German physician's experience with migraines, according to the beginning of the book?

8. In the case study presented by Sacks, where does the forty-four year old man believe that he is during a hallucination?

9. What does one researcher equate the migraine with, which might be helpful in treating them?

10. What sorts of migraine situations does Sacks say are rare and fairly uncommon in reference to visual hallucinations?

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