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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. In Sacks' mind, there is no reason to believe that ________ do not suffer from migraines as well, according to his logic.
(a) Comatose patients.
(b) Plants.
(c) Animals.
(d) Babies.

2. One of the categories of drugs is aimed at the __________ of the migraine, according to Sacks.
(a) Definition.
(b) Mechanism.
(c) Outcome.
(d) Movement.

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 ___________.
(a) Medication.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Activity.
(d) Serious pain.

4. Some doctors have tried _________ which Sacks believes to be grossly fraudulent or mutilating.
(a) Movements.
(b) Medications.
(c) Therapies.
(d) Surgeries.

5. Throughout time, there have been theories about the contractions of _________ and how this might relate to migraines.
(a) Arms.
(b) Muscles.
(c) Arteries.
(d) Legs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the case of menstrual migraines, Sacks points out that _________ may be helpful in controlling the pain.

2. Sacks says that people with fewer than ________ events per year is in need of less extensive interviews than others.

3. Sacks points out that many doctors and patients are still looking for the _____________ to help with migraine pain management.

4. Careful monitoring of __________ will also be helpful for those who want to make sure they are minimizing their risk of migraines.

5. The intensity of the pain of a migraine is directly related to the dilation of the _________ arteries in the head, according to research.

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. What does Sacks have to say about patients who have to face chronic migraines in their lives?

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 happens when systems are open to the environment around them, versus those systems which are closed?

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

6. What are the three categories of hallucinosis, according to the last section of the book?

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

8. What does Sacks point out is more needed in the animal world than in the human world?

9. What are the two categories of hallucinations that are most often attributed to migraine experiences?

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

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