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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be impossible when the pain of a migraine is intense, according to this book?

2. Sacks discusses the way that ________ can change in people who are in the middle of a migraine attack.

3. What might alleviate the pain of a migraine in some patients, while this might also make the pain more severe for some patients?

4. Many people who are experiencing migraines may seem to become _________ before they begin to show any other signs.

5. Sacks is just not sure if ____________ or genetics are more of a cause for the migraines which seem to take place in families.

Short Essay Questions

1. What can often be a secondary factor to the migraine pain, according to the author of this book?

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

3. What does Sacks have to say about the connection between family members who experience migraines?

4. What does Sacks have to say are some of the causes of circumstantial migraine, according to the book?

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

6. What problems do some researchers and physicians believe can happen as the result of migraines that a patient might experience?

7. Why do many migraine sufferers tend to rub one side of their head when they are in the midst of a migraine?

8. What are the classic symptoms of a migraine, according to Sacks' experience with his patients?

9. How does Sacks propose the genetic link of migraines be tested in order to assure that environmental conditions are not the cause?

10. What are the two terms that Reymond used to describe the way a migraine can change the appearance of a migraine patient?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Some migraine sufferers seem to have hallucinations before they have the migraine symptoms.

Part 1: What do the hallucinations tell a person about the cause of the migraine?

Part 2: How do you think you would react if you were to have hallucinations suddenly?

Part 3: Do you think it's easy to determine that you are having a hallucination?

Essay Topic 2

At one point, a doctor coined terms for migraines, based on what the patients looked like when they were suffering.

Part 1: Do you think medical condition names should include the appearance of the patient?

Part 2: Why do you thin Reymond decided to label migraine patients by their appearance?

Part 3: How do you think medical conditions should be labeled and named?

Essay Topic 3

Migraines are conditions that can impact a person for their entire life, without a cure in many cases.

Part 1: Why do you think that migraines impact a person's life so much?

Part 2: Do you think you could manage a condition that has no cure?

Part 3: How do you think a person changes when they have so much pain in their life?

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