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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. A drug may need to be taken ________ if there is severe vomiting present during a migraine episode.
(a) Rectally.
(b) Orally.
(c) Sublingually.
(d) Intravenously.

2. Studies fail to prove indications of a relationship between __________ causes and migraines, so Sacks does not believe this to be a valid cause.
(a) Strength training.
(b) Swallowing.
(c) Electrical correlation.
(d) Movement.

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

4. But _________ does not believe that using medication should be the only treatment or a long term answer to migraines.
(a) Gilbert.
(b) Reymond.
(c) Sacks.
(d) Siegel.

5. The fight or flight response is still present in _________, even if it seems to be less overt in the daily behaviors.
(a) Humans.
(b) Birds.
(c) Fish.
(d) Possums.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some researchers believe that a migraine is akin to a ________, with being a release reaction to a specific situation.

2. Sacks concludes the book by talking about how there is a tendency for the ________ to take on specific patterns.

3. 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 ___________.

4. The first category of visual hallucinations that can be seen during a migraine attack is _________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What affects at least ten percent of the population, so many people that they have attracted attention and curiosity since the beginning of time?

2. Why was Lashley mostly dismissed by his contemporaries in the migraine research field, according to the last section of this book?

3. What does Sacks say is uniquely human about the experience of migraines in humans, though he does not dispute that animals can have migraines too?

4. What can happen with a geometrical ornamental structure, according to Fluver in this section?

5. What did Airy believe that migraine hallucinations allowed a person to do as a result of their appearance?

6. What does Sacks point out as causing complications in terms of finding accurate and consistent diagnoses?

7. What is the correlation that Sacks discounts because of a lack of studies of migraine patients?

8. What are some of the typical pieces of advice which Sacks might offer to a patient who is suffering from migraines?

9. What are some of the polygons that migraine patients have reported seeing as a part of their auras or hallucinations?

10. What is the discovery that Lashely makes about the process of his own migraine scotomata?

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