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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. How many days a week would Bill Gardner come to help organize Alan's home office?

2. What drug was Alan given that made him crazy?

3. How old was Kelly when her parents took her to a flower show in a blinding snowstorm?

4. How many lawyers had Crystal Manir been able to successfully help return to work?

5. Where was a study done which showed that people with frontal lobe damage tended to laugh hardest at inappropriate punch lines to jokes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Cathy believe Bill's greatest value was?

2. Why did Alan respond differently to Asher Kemp, his recreational therapist, than to his other therapists?

3. Describe Gage before and after his accident.

4. What happened when Alan took Kelly and Jen to the movies?

5. What analogy did a neuropsychologist use to describe what happened in a brain after frontal lobe damage?

6. What strange pocket of speech deficits went undiagnosed at Magee?

7. What were the holidays like for Alan?

8. How was Phineas Gage injured?

9. What does Cathy wish she could do for Kelly?

10. How did Cathy feel when she took Alan home from Magee?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fatigue was a major problem for Alan. Discuss fatigue as a symptom of brain injury and how fatigue affected Alan.

Essay Topic 2

Alan was given various treatments to allow his brain to heal as much as possible. Discuss some of the treatments Alan was given and why those treatments were chosen.

Essay Topic 3

After the accident, Alan would tell stories that were obviously not true. The objective of this lesson is to discuss confabulation and how and why brain-injured people used confabulation.

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